Day 1 - Sun 31 May: Hippo Farm to Hervey Bay to Sydney to Dubai
After getting up very early due to the new timetable, we did all our chores in order to secure the house and our luggage. It was then into the shower to freshen up and get ready to go to the airport. Our friend John kindly drove us to the airport and dropped us off with plenty of time to spare. As we were checking in, the QANTAS man informs us that because the flight to Brisbane is a smaller prop plane our bikes "might not fit on". “ Yes ” we said, “ that is why we booked the original one. After much to ’ ing and fro ’ ing, he eventually told us that the bikes would get to Sydney, they might just not be on the same flight as us. Oh well, maybe we could do a walking tour of Germany? If that was not enough, the QANTAS baggage ticket printer at the check-in was outdated and they could only print a three-leg trip, not a four (which our re-routed trip was). So, a hand-written tag had to be produced for each bike box (x4) and each bag (x4). We can only ho...