This is not so much as a travel blog as a luggage blog.  We are currently relaxing at Bundarika Resort on Phuket Island in Thailand.  Enjoying the hard earned relaxation fruits of our cycling holiday.  Said fruits being blended directly into a cocktail.

The plan was for us to cycle around Europe for four months and then spend a week relaxing in a resort in Thailand to soothe our aching muscles.  In some respects, our cycling trip never found real momentum.  After a week of cycling, our bikes were stolen which laid us up in Perpignan for a week.  After another week cycling through southern France we had to decamp to Paris to meet up with family, which is a pretty good excuse to dismount the saddle.  Then Cassy returned to Australia for a week.

When Cassy returned we smashed out our longest cycling leg of the trip – zig zagging from Paris to Dijon.  Once in Dijon we jumped a train to Busingen to meet Wendy and Ron who generously took us through the Swiss Alps to Zermatt.  Once reunited with our bikes we lapped Lake Constance before returning to Busingen.  Then we realised that I was about to become an illegal immigrant having spent too long in the Schengen zone.  So we abandoned our bikes and headed to Croatia.  After watching the drivers in Croatia for a few minutes, abandoning our bikes proved to be a smart move.  Croatia is NOT a good destination for a cycling holiday.

By the time we returned to Busingen we had only ten days left to finish the cycling part of our holiday and once again depart Europe.   We rode from Busingen along the Danube River in southern Germany. 

And since we arrived in Thailand we have spent more time in the resort gym than at the spa!

Which doesn’t really bring me to the point of this blog.  Whilst we are in Thailand – our stuff is all over the world.  And I’m not really sure how to approach the telling of this story.  Perhaps back in time is the best method.

We have with us our summer clothes, toiletries, some books and other essentials packed into the bag of one of our bike trailers.

We left one of the bike trailers in storage at Singapore airport.  That has all our cycling gear, winter clothes, camping equipment and other stuff we dragged around the world with us.

Our bikes are in the basement of Wendy and Ron’s apartment in Busingen.  Along with the bike pannier containing cycling maps (LOTS of cycling maps) a sleeping bag, cycling stuff and various other things.  Already my memory of what we left there is starting to fade.   Although what we did leave is very neatly packed.  And we will return there to collect our bikes for another cycling holiday in Europe.

Some of r other stuff is spread randomly across Europe.  We lost our pet crocodile Volenti in southern France.   I have no idea where we misplaced my bag of spare cycling gear.  Although I suspect I won’t need my winter cycling pants in Darwin.  The other sleeping bag we abandoned in Figueres after we left it in our hotel room and were quoted $175 to on post it to Busingen.

Various bits and pieces are waiting for us in Perth.  Five months of accumulated mail is waiting for us when we arrive along with some packages filled with over-packing and Cassy’s fashion shopping from New York, which we mailed home.

Our car is waiting for us in Derby along with our northern Australia camping gear and various other things that I can’t remember.  Suffice to say that it took up a fair amount of room in the storage shed of Nicole and Jose’s place where we left it.

And our furniture, growing library, wardrobes and other household items are in storage – waiting for us in Darwin. 

The last part of our trip is really an effort to reunite our stuff.  We have survived five months without most of it.  I’m not sure why we need so much stuff.  But apparently we do!