Monday May 26, 2014 and Tuesday May 27, 2014

A couple of days to relax and prepare for our flight back to the UK.  Our bikes were already packed and ready to go.  We are flying Singapore Airlines.  I struggled to find an airline where we could pay for an extra piece of luggage (the bikes) at a reasonable rate.  Singapore airlines had the best baggage allowance.

When we flew from Canada we paid $150.00 for each bike.  On this flight we are limited to a total of 30 kgs checked baggage (this includes the bikes) and 7 kgs carry-on.  If we are over we will have to pay for excess baggage at some ridiculous amount of $70.00 per kilo over!

We spent most of Tuesday trying to reduce the stuff we have to be under this weight allowance. We stuffed all our clothes into our carry-on panniers. We took out suncream and bug-off, we removed the plastic containers that we use in our food pannier. We are about 3 kgs over on the carry-on and about 5 kgs each over on the checked bags.  As I hate flying, I was getting a bit stressed over the excess weight.  Then Ralf suggested that all the extra stuff we put in plastic bags in our checked luggage and if the airline tell us we are over, we can take it out.  The carry-on we would pay the extra for if needed.

Mat made us a lovely dinner, he is a really good cook and we have really enjoyed not having to cook as Mat enjoys spending time in the kitchen creating.  Ralf and I eat to survive not because either of us enjoy cooking.  We did help around the house, so we hope we were good guests and if we come back to Australia to cycle from Brisbane to Cairns to Darwin and down to Adelaide (just an idea) they will let us stay with them again? We have really enjoyed spending time with them.  Mat is a really good tour guide, I definitely recommend this \”B&B\”. Love you Mat, thanks for having us.