Saturday, September 12, 2015

Safely home

I arrived back in Canberra on the bus from Sydney at 11.30 on Friday night. There were several delays and frustrations on the way and I was less calm and able to sit patiently than I  was hoping to be. I think, mentally, I started the long journey home when I left San Remo, not Milan.

I stepped foot outside the airplane at Sydney at 8.10 pm  ( 2.75 hours late) and I am sure I now have the record for the fastest time through immigration and customs.  I was seated at the front end of the business class passengers, so I only had a few first class passengers to weave my way through and then I ran. There was noone else around, no other large jet had just discharged its hordes, there had been a delay of about 15 min waiting at the gate for a quarantine doctor to check a sick passenger and therefore my bag was already on the carousel when I got straight through immigration, no queues, then straight through customs, no queues, then I ran again to the bus, due to leave at 8.15, and got there as the last 2 passengers were boarding at 8.22

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