14. Back to London.

We were going to travel further south in Portugal to Lagos but changed our plans after looking at our options.

From Lagos, we wanted to fly to Spain, Sicily and Malta. The flights were going to be quite cheap if we didn't have checked-in luggage. In most cases (pardon the pun) the luggage can be more expensive to transport than the person! 

So, after realising that we could ditch half our luggage, we decided to fly back to London to offload our suitcases and crammed necessary clothing in 'cabin cases' (56cm x 40cm x 20cm) and one backpack each, therefore enabling us to take our cases on the plane and check-in online. This saves us an hour checking in luggage and another hour standing by the carousel. This also made Uber easier and cheaper with smaller cars. It all adds up!

So we are flying out to Istanbul on the 24th of January.

Here is the breakup of flying costs without checked luggage:

Cost of flight for 2 people      AUD   60.00
Taxes                                         AUD 126.00
Total cost                                  AUD 186.00

If we had checked luggage it would have added  another AUD184!

Next stop...Turkey!