Sentence:  Namely, leaving my <WSD>luggages</WSD> at the Government hostel, to go straight out by taxi (oh, so slow, compared with our sleek Lagos limousines!) to the famous central Piccadilly Tube station where I took a onestop ticket, went down on the escalator, and then "ran up the same steps in the wrong direction". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A specific (bag) or (container) holding a traveller's belongings.