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Landed at Sydney - a very slick airport with machines for everything. To save queues at the e-epassport gates, there are preliminary e-tickets. So you queue for an e-ticket from a machine that scans your passport. Having got that, you queue at the e-passport gate, which doesn't want your passport but scans your face. Not sure it's much of a time saver but it does break up the queing.

The train to the city centre is a fast, clean double decker. It dropped us just half a mile from the hotel, but because of tiredness and luggage we decided to get a taxi. Took a lift to the level labelled 'Concourse', where found a map that showed taxis at exit 4, and exit 4 near us. The only slight hitch was that the exit level is not the concourse level, and thr map showing a lift going up amd down led us to a lift that only went down. A circuit of that level led us eventually roind some building works to the way out. Which revealed more building works where the taxis should have been. I suspect the walk to find a taxi ended up as actually longer tham the one to the hotel would have been.Read more