Monday October 20, 2014

We had a lovely lie-in and after breakfast we planned our day. Bike boxes, book flights, laundry and pack, all business today.

We left the apartment a little late 11:30 and found the first bike shop. Hendrik, was the other warmshowers host who had said he could host us and he worked at the bike co-op. We asked if he had any boxes that we could pack the bikes in. They didn’t really sell bikes – it was more a workshop and courier business. However, he called the other bike shop and arranged for us to pick up a couple of boxes.

Off we went to the other bike shop and got there just as they were closing for siesta, they offered us two very large boxes. We decided to go back to the apartment to check on the size of the bikes and the airline restriction on the size of boxes we could ship.

After lunch and some grocery shopping we headed out to an outdoor store, travel agent and the bike shop. The travel agent would charge us a commission of E150 to book the flights, but needed to call the airline to confirm the price for shipping the bikes. I decided to try and book it myself online.

What did we accomplish at the end of the day: – we got two bike boxes.

I also had a long chat with Joy on Skype, which was good. She was feeling a little down, as her recovery is slower than she was expecting.