We're in Europe for almost four months. I bought a Baggallini uptown bag just before we left and it's been wonderful. I've done a lot of traveling and this is the best. It's light, opens easily, has a place for a cell phone, secure (buckled and zippered) place for passports and larger bills, a pocketbook secured to an immovable strap, with a zipper and place for credit cards and another strap to clip on keys. Everything is so easy to find and very secure. I'm never fishing around for something in my purse and I'm not worried about someone slipping a hand in and making off with my pocketbook (that has happened to me before). It has a long strap and I often slip it over my head when carrying groceries, books, etc. Someone with a real travel brain came up with this.