FLIGHTS BOOKED YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Booked my youngest sons flight and my flight back home for 12th March and I can't wait! My OH and oldest son will come when he's done school in May/June.

How do you move back though with only 20 kilos of baggage allowance! We're not taking anything back with us other than dvd's, photos, ps stuff etc and my shed load of clothes!! Guess i'm going to have to trim my wardrobe..again!!
Anyway its a huge relief that we're all booked and out of here back to reality!

Thinking of you

Yep,we will make drastic luggage cuts .

Our car (though an SUV) has very little storage ,and there is only *so * much my relatives (that are collecting us ) will hold also !

Oh well ,I did it coming this way and survived .I am sure we will live to tell the tale of how we "came back to this country in 2011,with just 4 suitcases "

Good luck packing .

ooohh!
we are leaving two days after you!

you can send stuff back through an excess baggage company for around $6.00 kg...

In someways it might be a blessing..lol..we had a container and then had to try and find somewhere to rent asap as we did not want our things in storage (which is what happend anyway)

You have what you need for now and thats all that counts....good luck and the very best of wishes to you and your boys, I came with our two boys and my Oh followed later on in the year.....

Is that price from Australia??? $6.00 per kilo!!!!

All the very best to the OP and her son. Safe flight and all that.

It is amazing at how ruthless you can be when you have to be! I got mine down to 2 suitcases and about 8 or 9 boxes, not bad after 30 years of Australia LOL!!

I only have 9 sleeps left myself!!!

thank you, and good luck to you too. I went to UPS today to see how much it would cost to send a 20 x20 box back to the UK and nearly passed out when she said $640...our flights didn't cost that much??? So i guess i'll be paying excess baggage....again! I turned the charm on when we came out to Canada and got the cost of excess down to half what it should have been...might try the same tactic...low top, tight jeans!! Knowing my luck it would be a woman sorting the baggage out!!
Where you heading back to in the UK? I bet the excitement is kicking in now?? all the best

I'm 19 days behind you fatcat and I can't wait to get out of here either! I know what you're saying about the baggage restrictions, I'm barely going to get my laptop on in my hand baggage but fortunately I can leave stuff with my dad to be brought back on visits if need be. I just checked out this site called Excess Baggage Company; apparently they do shipments back to UK at what looks like a reasonable price. http://www.excess-baggage.com/ I'm seriously going to check them out. Good luck with your trip home!

Not to steal thunder or anything, but after two years in Montreal and I'm flying back to the UK on Friday

My stuff is with the shipping company, furniture is all sold / given to charities, I hand my apartment keys in on Friday, go to work for my last day and then go catch the plane!

Congrats - where in the UK are you heading back to?

Another deserter here fly back with kids 2nd March from Calgary

Been here (SK) just over 4 years, had enough going back to Gloucestershire hubby to follow later.

Good luck to everyone hope it all works out

http://www.worldbaggage.com.au/Estimate.aspx

yeah, its actually $5.50 per kilo, so for 50 kgs we will pay $360, but that also includes an $85 charge for Documentation, Handling, Airline Insurance.

if you have enough kilos its cheap but if you are only a few kilos overweight, then their site shows $230 quote even if i put in only 5 or 10 kgs ? and it doesn't seem as good an option with the other charges on top.

I'm staying with my folks for a week in Reading, then it's off to Edinburgh to start a new job!

I've never lived in Scotland before so it's going to be a new adventure

Wow, it's becoming the "Abandoning Canada" thread

That's what I was thinking too - now what are we both doing in this part of the forum?

Good luck everyone going back - someone have a saveloy and chips for me