I'm glad you had fun on your trip.
One time, touring in Europe. I stopped in Venice and then took the train to Calais. Only my bicycle got shipped to Boulogne. I waited a week for it to arrive in Calais, but the SNCF could not tell me where it was. So I finally went on. It wasn't until I had been back for several months that anyone told me where my bike was. I had a friend who worked for an import/export company and she tried for six months to get the bike back and then advised me to give up.
