It was a real shame that a very strong headwind delayed my flight from Melbourne to Perth by around 45 minutes. There was then congestion on the ramp at Perth airport adding extra minutes of delay to my already tight schedule in Western Australia of just four hours! I was being met at Perth by Warren and Monica, two people Heather and I met in South America a few years ago when travelling by boat on the Beagle Channel from Argentina to Chile. They really are a g...

Thirteen hours in a Boeing 777 after leaving Abu Dhabi, two dinners, one sandwich, two films (Birdman and The Theory of Everything) and all of the Eurovision 2015 songs (at least twice) later Etihad flight EY460 was in Melbourne. I even managed some decent sleep - woohoo! The flight routing took us from Abu Dhabi over Muscat in Oman, southern India passing Chennai and then after running parallel with Indonesia headed to Australia crossing the coast close to, poss...