It's great riding your bike everywhere if you have the free days available. I priced up a fly/ride trip to Malaga last week, for a trip in February. It would take me a day to get to Portsmouth, a day on the ferry to Santander, two days to ride to Malaga, then the same to get home. Taking into account the accommodation, fuel, ferry and food/drink costs, it was about the same as having the bike transported door to door, but the travelling from home is only a day each way using a low cost airline, so 6 days saved. I didn't go as far as taking tyre wear and servicing costs into account.