To be fair, the staff here at the airport were pretty sweet about my dismantling and repacking the bag and also accepting it, despite the bike bag being 23kg - 3kg overweight.
For the record, my total weight was approx 38kg.
Some random thoughts from the road:
- obsession with fried eggs in Portugal - even crisp flavour
- world be great if there were more fruit trees in public places for foraging travellers, similar to those groves on the roadsides in eastern Europe.
- in spite, or because of, all drugs being legal in Portugal since 2001, there is very little overt drug use eg no smell of marajuana anywhere
- Portugal is a very livable country --> maybe I move here when the fun and creatuve spirit of Berlin is diluted by gentrification
Signing off from my Iberian adventure.