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Up, up and away

If you want to get to the other side of the world in twenty four hours, you have little choice but to sit still for the duration, eat whatever is put in front of you, read, sleep (not in my case) and overdose on films!  My journey started early on Monday morning, flying from Edinburgh to Doha, with a three hour stopover before continuing on to Melbourne.  Thankfully the flights were uneventful and perfectly on time.  

Edinburgh lurked below the cloud cover which we very quickly cleared after take off, and then it was sunshine all the way until we caught up with night time, shortly before we began our descent into Doha, six hours and fifty five minutes later.
The second leg of the journey is interminable!  Fourteen hours.  Finally, about ten hours after leaving Doha, the remote and beautiful outer edges of Western Australia were laid out forty five thousand feet below us.
Arriving in Melbourne ten minutes early, my son and granddaughter were there to meet me, and my 2018 Australian adventure had begun!

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  1. sally evers23 November 2018 at 00:22

    Welcome back. Hooray for you! Australia is a stunning and varied landscape, but I do love your photos of Western Australia....a land that time forgot. Magical. xxx

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