At the risk of outraging our medical team, I'm leaving the hand sanitizer at home. Here's my rationale--I don't carry the stuff around with me over here and I travel all the time--in fact I'm writing this from a hotel room in Troy. I spend my working days at universities, which are heaven on earth for germs. So if I don't use the Purell on this side of the Atlantic, why should I add weight to my luggage by toting the stuff with me to Europe?
The bathrooms of France typically come with soap and running water as standard equipment, so if you just follow common sense hygiene protocols and wash your hands regularly, you'll be just fine.
Also, I'm sure at least one of you is going to pack an industrial sized bottle of this potion anyway, so if I have a hand sanitizer emergency, I'll bet I can mooch off of you.
The only time I ever do use hand sanitizer is at Jazz Fest in New Orleans, and, trust me, it's necessary to douse yourself in gallons of the life saving goo when you're at Jazz Fest. If you've ever been to Jazz Fest, you know exactly what I mean.
If you do feel the overwhelming urge to bring hand sanitizer with you, remember the whole stupid "liquids and gels" rule limiting what you can carry on and how you have to pack it.
3 comments:
No hand sanitizer in Vietnam, but at Jazz Fest. Which place is more third world. Hmmmmmmm.
Last time I used hand sanitizer (when not in the hospital) was at City Stages!!!!!!
Where in the world did you find that image TK? It's perfect!
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