Another change of mind - there'll be more of these, I bet!

Looks like the aircraft museum in Hanover will definitely have to wait for us to return to Europe some other time. I did think about stopping off there on the way to London, but it's still all just too much travel. However, I did discover one of those fascinating reasons why people think airlines are ripping them off. I did a couple of flight comparisons with Qantas, and they offered to get us to and from Hanover (Hamburg actually) for about $2200 each. Cool, however, I don't want a return trip - and for the one way flight, the lowest they'd offer is $8026. Each. Amazing. Almost 4 times as much money to fly us half the distance.

If we manage to get together enough money for the 2015 Gallipoli cruise, we'll be finishing up in Rome, and Paul is already talking about seeing some of Europe while we're there, so that might be the way we'll go.

Cardiff though might be on the list after all. I realised today that there's an Insight Tours holiday somewhat similar to the Globus one, but including Cardiff. I had crossed this one off my list because it was over my 'top price' - not by much, but you have to set a limit somewhere and I had already upped it at least twice :-)

However, the Globus one requires us to stay in London or Copenhagen - or somewhere in between - for four days after holiday before we can join the cruise, while the Insight one has only a two day break. Once you add the extra accommodation etc onto the price (they're two of the most expensive places to stay in Europe apparently), the Insight one isn't quite so far out of range.

I'm in the middle of comparing the two in detail, but at the very least I'm going to ask the Travel Agent to check out the costs of the Insight one for us - they also have early booking discounts so it might end up in much the same price range as the Globus one anyway.