You know life is treating you well when your challenge for the week is to find suitable waterproof footwear that won’t take up the entire weight of your 23kg baggage allowance. Yes 23kg each! Travelling with a suitcase; a luxury that has evaded us for many years, having been limited to 7kg hand luggage, or if we were feeling particularly cavalier we might have stretched to an additional 15kg allowance between us. The last time we had such a generous allowance was on a flight