Brisbane, Australia
Monday, October 22, 2007
After leaving Rome I flew back to Australia via Singapore and landed in Sydney. Both flights were pretty uneventful except that the luxury of a more spacious seat on the first leg wasn't available on the second leg (luckily this was the shorter leg). When we arrived in Sydney I got the usual hold up at passport control and then I grabbed my bag and exchanged my money before taking my luggage through customs. On unknown to me there had been another break out of mad cow in England so everyone was being checked on my flight so my comfortable 2 hr break to my flight to
Brisbane was getting pretty short. What really annoyed me was that this directive to check all baggage was probably quite fair exept they only had one gate open for everybody off 2 flights. After I eventually got through I found that the free bus with Virgin Blue had stopped running about an hour earlier so I had to wait for the next train which was only 10 minutes but still cutting it fine. What was crazy here was it cost me $13 to get a one way ticket between the international terminal and the domestic terminal. Now I had seen some big rip offs on this trip but this took the cake. I eventually got to the Virgin Blue terminal and quickly checked in and headed straight to the gate where after a short delay I was back on a plane and returning to Queensland and the end of my tour.
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