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General

1 cup is 236ml C = (F-30)/2 conversion is a good approximation only for weather, not oven temperatures!

F to C conversion table¹

Basics: salmon, lemon curd, lemons, 15min in preheated oven bs Source: 5 ingredient Lemon Curd Salmon | Made It. Ate It. Loved It.

Ingredients

• 1 salmon filet
• 1 560g jar lemon curd
• 1/4 cup (60ml) butter, sliced
• 2 lemons (1 sliced)
• salt and pepper

Time

~35min

(Preheat oven, 15min to prepare, 15min in oven.)

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 175 C.
2. Grab the salmon filet, take the salt and pepper and season it.
3. Then take the jar of lemon curd and spread on about half of it, or until the salmon is covered.
4. Then place the butter slices on top of the salmon.
5. Then top with lemon slices. Take the other lemon and squeeze the juice on top of the lemon.
6. Pop in the oven and bake for about 15-20 minutes.
7. Once done, remove from oven and spread more lemon curd on top!

Video

Current trip

• Add references below:
  • e.g. LUGGAGE weight/size, weather, intinerary screenshots
• Add special items needed for the current trip
• RETURN TRIP? -> add its “special items” from list above here
• DELETE irrelevant checklist items outright (e.g. no check in for train trip) before start

One week before

• Add CHECK IN DATE to calendar!
• Buy TRAIN TICKETS if any
  • BahnCARD-25 that I have
  • Contingenies for late trains — flex ticket?
  • Is it the CORRECT AIRPORT?
• Check my PLANS for the trip and PEOPLE there
  • Recent birthdays?
  • Planned special occasions?
  • Any appointments HERE when I’m away?
• Check relevant TAGS in taskwarrior: +UA/DE/LT, pro:h.trip
• Timezones? Target + intermediate points
  • 0: IT=DE=PL=HR (+0)
  • 1: Lithuania=UA=Turkey (+1)
• Any DOCUMENTS for there/back that take time?
• Need to REFILL any prescription medicines?
• Any important POST or Packages? Fill/sign form if yes
• Anything to eat before leaving?

Evening before

• START CHARGING:
  • phone
  • laptop
  • powerbank(s)?
  • bluetooth headphones
  • bluetooth button thingy
• CHECK IN
  • Download (or use shiny app for) BOARDING PASS
  • Note WEIGHT/size requirements
  • Is the AIRPORT correct?
• Entertainment
  • Download podcasts or movies?
    • Podcasts
      • sth long like Fall of Civilizations Podcast , or casual like Nightvale?..
  • Papers to read?
• Laptop:
  • git push or backup:
    • Work stuff
    • DTB
    • qs
    • ..dotfiles?
  • CLOSE programs before the battery does
  • Small BACKUP to external drive?
• Set any ALARMS

Bureaucracy and documents

• Documents
  • PASSPORT(s)
  • NIEDERLASSUNGSERLAUBNIS (the valid one!)
  • Credit cards
  • Health insurance
  • BahnCARD
  • Anything else needed there or on the way back?
  • LEAVE any unneeded documents
    • Clean wallet, leave S-Bahn tickets etc.
• SIM cards
  • Take BOX with them + paperclip
  • CHARGE any SIM cards

Practicalities

• KEYS for all potentially needed apts, both directions
  • LEAVE unneeded keys
  • Take lanyard if hotels planned
• Clean:
  • wallet
  • backpack
• MONEY in carry-on
  • 2x of planned, all currencies
• Last time, what will be needed on the WAY BACK? (Docs/keys/…)

Electronics

• Electronics
  • USB-hub + cables!
  • Подовжувач?
  • Laptop
  • MOUSE and the CORRECT (!) USB dongle
  • HEADPHONES wired and/or bluetooth
    • incl. charger/cables if applicable
  • Bluetooth button thingy
• CHARGERS/cables/…
  • Phone charger
  • Laptop charger
  • Powerbank
  • HDMI cable?
• DISCONNECT unneeded USB dongles from laptop

Personal

• Teeth
  • Toothbrush
    • IF electronic - all needed BRUSHES
    • IF trip is long - CHARGER
    • ?Irrigator
  • All the tiny things to clean teeth
  • Small Listerine bottle with my current mouthwash
• MASKS: 1x of both types
• HAND SANITIZER
• My water bottle
• MEDICINES
  • The usual PRESCRIPTION stuff
    • HOW LONG will I be away?
  • For the trip:
    • Something agaist NAUSEA
    • Atoxil / Eliminal / Sorbex
    • Painkillers
• Second pair of glasses if conference or long trip

? Camping stuff

• Camping stuff
  • Glasses box if planning to take glassess off often (sea, camping, …)
  • my metallic cup to keep phones glasses etc
  • Salt, sugar?
  • Tea

Trip

• What will be needed on the WAY there?
• What is available / will be / is needed in TARGET?
• (Nalgene?) WATER that won’t roll in a plane
• Кульки
• Серветки
  • сухі
  • мокрі
• Thermoflasche?
• SLEEP MASK, беруши? Clothing with hood?
• Баф?
• Рассческа
• BOOK
• PEN AND PAPER (or notebook)
  • pencils/pen/eraser for drawing?..
• Is any of the food liquid?
• Instant tea/coffee?
• Card holder + lanyard, if hotels planned
• Chewing gum

Clothes

• WEATHER
  • Check weather at target point:
    • Leipzig,
    • weather Vilnius next 5 days - Wolfram|Alpha
    • Berlin
    • Kyiv,
    • Rome - BBC Weather
  • If it’s COLD
    • pants are more important than upper body
    • Термобілизна
    • Капюшон
    • Handschuhe?
  • If it’s WARM - too-warm-shoes will make life hell
    • HAT!
    • Sunscreen?
• Polo with BREAST POCKET¹ for passport/docs
• Comfortable shoes
• Belt
• N underwear
• N socks
• Плавки?
• Одежа для “дому” - футболка, тапки, …
  • Яка ок для вулиці теж!
• Backpack rain cover

DEPARTURE CHECKLIST

• LUGGAGE
  • info:
    • Baggage on short-haul flights with LOT | LOT.com
    • Handgepäck | Gepäckbestimmungen | airBaltic
  • WEIGHT within limits
  • Paper with date, flight, contact info
  • Take PICTURES inside, outside
  • Remove stray TAGS
• ROOM clean
  • Take away the TRASH
  • Especially ORGANICS
• Everything turned off
  • WINDOWS closed
  • Electricity off
    • Things in sockets taken or disconnected
  • Water off
• Go last time through stuff that was charging overnight
• Toothbrush
• ESSENTIALS
  • Phone, phone charger, laptop, laptop charger
  • Passport + Aufenthaltstitel
  • CORRECT TICKETS printed or downloaded

Old / removed

• Fitbit charger
• Bluetooth button thingy
• internal passport :(

Related / references

• https://github.com/jpcaparas/travel-checklist
• TODO: put steps in each group in order of importance

Changelog

• 2022-06-11: added bit about timezones
• 2023-04-03: added list of timezones + LOT luggage rules
• 2023-05-15: added the bits about me now havig a BahnCARD
• 2023-01-03: added the bits about the button thingy, Thermoflasche; removed obsolete items
• 2023-08-07: added USB hub thing
• 2024-05-10:
  • added: second pair of glasses
  • removed/deemph.: corona
• 2024-12-23:
  • added thermal clothing, backpack rain protection, gloves, “current trip”
  • removed: corona stuff, student ID, netflix
• 2025-05-12: completely removed corona stuff
• 2025-06-05: Added Listerine bit
• 2025-08-06: Deemph. masks; added swimming stuff
• 2025-08-07: “Add items from past checklist”
• 2025-08-26: “Set alarms”; “delete irrelevant items” (instead of marking them as done)
• 2025-08-29:
  • Added versioning to keep track of this between different Obsidian vaults. Yay v.2.0.0
  • 2.0.1 add old/removed
• 2025-11-17: Added ’the valid one’ to Niederlassungs., what the hell it’s my checklist

Ingredients

• 1/2 баночки тунца в собственном соку (90-100 г.)
• огурец (Без шкурки)
• помидор
• листья салата
• зерненная горчица
• соль, сухой чеснок

Steps

• Все смешиваем, заправляем оливковым маслом