Right out of the blue I flew to Melbourne (Qantas) early Monday morning and returned Tuesday evening (JetStar)! Through a teacher friend I'd come across an amazing woman called Liz Dunoon, who's published a book called Helping Children with Dyslexia (with a foreword by Sir Richard Branson, no less!!!!). She'd checked out my Sounds of Reading website and rang and invited me down (at her expense) to stay overnight at her place. We talked about reading non-stop and exchanged lots of ideas, which was wonderful.
I found the do-it-yourself online ticketing a bit frazzling, but Lina came to the rescue and calmed me down. I left my car at her place and she caught the before-6am train with me into the city and put me on the airport train. Both flights said they were leaving from and arriving at international terminals, which wasn't true - they just do that to amuse themselves, I think, and force potential travellers to waste hours online and making phone calls.
In fact, I think I spent more time online getting the tickets than the actual flight, which is only a bit over an hour (if you don't count a long delay because there was some muckup with baggage and a holding-pattern, waiting for our turn to land). It took two hours to get from the airport home!!!!
I found the do-it-yourself online ticketing a bit frazzling, but Lina came to the rescue and calmed me down. I left my car at her place and she caught the before-6am train with me into the city and put me on the airport train. Both flights said they were leaving from and arriving at international terminals, which wasn't true - they just do that to amuse themselves, I think, and force potential travellers to waste hours online and making phone calls.
In fact, I think I spent more time online getting the tickets than the actual flight, which is only a bit over an hour (if you don't count a long delay because there was some muckup with baggage and a holding-pattern, waiting for our turn to land). It took two hours to get from the airport home!!!!
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Strange things happen! I was just about to email you and ask how long the flight from Sydney to Melbourne and I go on line, check out the blog and there you are with the very information I need. Philip has just told me his arrangements for his visit to Oz at Christmas. He is flying from Wellington to Sydney to stay with friends he lived with in Dublin and then after three days he flies to Melbourne where he has more friends and his cousin Wendy and her family - not finished yet, he then flies to Brisbane for 4 days and from there back to Wellington.
All these vast spaces you have in Oz are difficult to understand by a lady who is used to flying to Spain in less than two hours!
I agree that the only thing wrong with air travel is the airports!
Glad you're back safely. x
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