LADEN with hefty backpacks, French children filed back to school this week amid fresh agonising about the education system.
Ideal for day trip activities such as city walking tours and hiking treks, a backpack conveniently stores hefty items like cameras, chargers, and water bottles.
When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out, my partner and I pounced on the first copy we could find, even though we were backpacking through south-east Asia at the time, and thus had to carry the hefty great thing in a rucksack.
It will make certain niche groups very happy: gadget freaks, lawyers with massive document stashes, doctors and pilots who check hefty reference texts, high school students with 35-pound backpacks and anyone who likes to read by the pool for 20 weeks at a time.
Officials in the Swiss Alpine village of Appenzell have been forced to take firm action to stave off the threat of an invasion of German nudist hikers, instituting a hefty new fine for anyone caught on the mountainside in nothing but their boots and a backpack.
The standard-issue MacBook Pro came with a hefty Targus beater of a shoulder bag, and AOL saw fit to send me a Ogio backpack emblazoned with a giant purple AOL logo.
Hefty fines seem inevitable.
