Homeward Bound
Here I am in Abu Dhabi airport, about 2/3 of the way home from Sydney, with just enough time for a quick post. We took off about 4pm Sydney time and I had a window seat with a good view of take-off and parts of Australia, including the famous Blue Mountains just to the West of Sydney, but it soon got dark. My flight leaves Abu Dhabi at 2.20am local time and arrives in Dublin at 6.30am local time, so most of this will be in darkness too!
Anyway, farewell Sydney! I’ve enjoyed being in you!
Update: After some minor excitement caused by my having a nosebleed on the plane, I made it back to Dublin in one piece and on time, though there was a long delay on the bus from the Airport owing to an ‘incident’ on the M1 near the airport, so I was about an hour later than expected getting home. I won’t be here for long before I jet off again, but I do need a little time to rest.
In the Dark 
March 4, 2024 at 8:19 pm
Great city! Did you walk the Harbour Bridge, to the centre at least?
In the late 1980s, when I was there, they still hadn’t finished replacing the older rolling stock on the local rail lines that run over the harbour bridge, and if a carriage door jammed then it was simply left permanently open, and you could hold the handrail and hang out of the carriage as it crossed the bridge.
Bernard O’Reilly’s book Green Mountains (which I was put on to by David Stove) is a fine meditation about Australia’s Great Dividing Range running parallel to the east coast, of which the Blue Mountains are part. O’Reilly was a hero – see his Wikipedia entry. Did you get to Katoomba, the Blue Mountains resort for Sydney and on the railway?