Travel stories
It had to happen … I missed the plane!
You know, looking back over my travel history I’m beginning to think that I’m cursed in some way. So far I’ve managed to be delayed several times, had a plane turn back to a closer destination because of ‘technical difficulties’, missed connecting flights, lost my bags on numerous occasions and once I managed to somehow […]
Long walks in London - March 2000
Excerpt from my travel diary - Sat 4 and Sun 5 March 2000
Loll woke early so we were up and eating breakfast by 7am. But true to form he was back in bed after an hour! After he woke again we dressed in our coats and set off for a walk. It was bright and […]
To London with a 7 month old - March 2000
Our first trip overseas with a baby was in 2000 when our eldest was 7 mths old. Here’s a short account of our plane trip:Loll is seven and a half months old and is already a “veteran” flyer having been to Melbourne and Adelaide since Christmas. But the flight to London is a much longer […]
Outback NSW
I’ve just returned from a 3 day business trip to some country/outback towns. We went out to do some training for our regional staff. In Australia there are large distances between towns once you get out of Sydney - people think nothing of driving for 200km or more to the next town. Some of the […]
Sorry, your flight left over an hour ago…
It won’t come as any surprise to hear that I have missed a connecting flight or two (as well as my near misses, including a memorable sprint across Bangkok airport). Thankfully all of those occasions were in the days before I had children.I was a young, fairly naive traveller the first time it happened. I […]
Trips without baby - October 2006
I’ve taken two trips to regional cities in the past fortnight - one to Albury and the other to Tamworth. Both flights were with QantasLink which is a subsidiary of Qantas that flies to the smaller cities around the country.Both flights were on Dash-8 aircraft. These aircraft are propellor planes, known as turboprops. The […]
