Andrei Neculau » travel http://andreineculau.com/blog ...trying not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. (Albert E.) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:05:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en My luggage http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/08/my-luggage/ http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/08/my-luggage/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:42:13 +0000 Andrei Neculau http://andreineculau.com/blog/?p=174 Another problem, another solution..

On my way to Sweden, I’m flying SAS. They have a 20kg limit for the luggage, and 8kg limit for cabin luggage.

When you put that together with the fact that you’re moving for at least 2 years… uuuuuu!! Not good! But let’s see where this takes me. I got a nice suitcase and a smaller one for the cabin (fits the size restrictions). Then there’s the laptop bag!

I really suggest looking carefully for light suitcases, since otherwise you will waste all that limit, no matter how easy they are on you. And don’t buy expensive ones, if they are not “steel strong”. Ground services nowadays are quite lame at airports, so you’re bags have a high chance of getting tossed. So keep them light and cheap. My big suitcase is 4kg, while the small cabin one is just 2.5kg. And they were altogether around 100€.

That leaves 20+8-4-2.5 = 21.5 kg just for me-me-me.

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I will be staying there for 2 years, and it would be nice to cut potential health costs, since they could prove to be quite high in Sweden.

I could basically get two types of insurances: one is a basic travel insurance, while the other is an insurance for people working/studying abroad.

Differences between the two, as provided by Allianz-Țiriac:

For traveling For working/studying
Price/year 100€ 480$
Insured limit (EU) 50000€ 100000$
Hospital care up to 15 days indefinite
Hospital type public only public/private
Psychiatric care none up to 500$
Accompanying partner none up to 1500$
Death/invalidity none up to 10000$

I managed to get a copy of their manual (Romanian), so you can read the full descriptions for both:

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