Up, Up & Away (With a 43kmh tailwind!)

As the Melbourne wind 💨 howls at
43 kilometres an hour and the rain 🌧️ buckets down with a top of 12° (feels like 3° ) we are dreaming of a place where the sun ☀️ is shining, it is 30+ degrees and a 5km wind gently caresses us… Italy 🇮🇹 here we come!

Bags are packed, hair is cut (…too short: you get what you pay for!) and anticipation is excitably high 🤩

Airport security was the ‘shit-show’ it always tends to be: belts off, don’t stack trays, phones 📱 out, back n forth, this n that, coats 🧥 off, water 💧 emptied at the last minute… Even if you’re a seasoned traveler this can unnerve you… Two delectable wines 🍷 later and this is all forgiven 😊

As a royalist, it would be remiss of me, not to mention the first Anniversary of the passing of our most devoted and beautiful monarch, Queen Elizabeth today. She reigned over us for 70 long years, and today, we remember her with a smile in our hearts❤️✊🏻👑👜

Boarding now: 14.5 hours to Doha and then, like Gladiators of old, onwards to Rome ✈️Read more