And all of a sudden, the next holiday is now (for Paul at least)

Paul left Canberra on Wednesday and after the usual "three flights and more than 24 hours on planes" finally arrived at his home for the next twelve days.  
I'll leave Canberra on Saturday 26 October for the same long, long haul - from Canberra to Melbourne to Singapore to Heathrow. 
The interesting thing is that both of us have our flights booked through Princess under one ticket - the two international flights with Singapore Airlines and the Virgin flight from Canberra - Melbourne ticketed with Singapore Airlines as a code-share. 
This somewhat surprisingly meant that at the normal Virgin domestic check-in at Canberra Airport, they could check Paul's luggage through to London and gave him his boarding passes for all three flights as well.  We had assumed he would need to pick up his luggage at Melbourne and check in there with Singapore Airlines, but no need.  It was the quickest check-in I have ever seen for an international flight, and the luggage found its way to Heathrow without drama.  I hope mine goes just as smoothly next week.