sydney journals :: april 2008
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Thursday, April 17 2008, 16:26
Home, warm home
Just a quick note to let you all know that I'm home safe and sound. I was up, bleary-eyed and vulnerable on Tuesday morning, doing my old Tube route into work - I can't say I miss it. Both of the top layers came off to relieve me of the Central Line's subterranean warmth and my fingers were black with Metro ink by the time I emerged, blinking into the chilly light of Paddington station; from there, a zippy and wallet-burning Heathrow Express ride to the airport and onto a smart Cathay Pacific jet to Hongkers. And what luxury! A full three seats to myself, burrowed into a soft nest of blankets and pillows with the soporific engine drone to soothe me into a Dozile nap across Europe and Asia. My first steps in China were round in circles as I wondered what to do in shiny Hong Kong Airport; out of boredom, I ate, munching down a Popeyes chicken burger and cajun chips while the eponymous and unlikely hero ug-ug-ugged interminably out of a nearby screen while Ms Oyl wailed her trademark wails.
My second sector home was only slightly less comfortable, with only two seats to myself. Despite determining to stay awake for this, the Australian daytime leg, I snoozed gently in a new pillow palace for half of the journey, and only forced myself awake to watch Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. I wasn't particularly sold on the musical format, but when Johnny Depp drew a leisurely blade over his first victim's throat, the ensuing gory fountain had my toes curling in horror and my eyes averted; it was still spurting when I forced myself to look back, so I stabbed at the controller until Disney's Beauty and the Beast helped me back to my happy place. Well. Happy-ish. It's with some mortification that I admit to crying at several points during the film and again during Friends.
Anyway, to cut a short story shorter, we landed early in Sydney, and I was out of that airport in record time, through baggage, immigration, customs, and quarantine, and out into the warm night air of home. Thanks again to everyone for making it such a fun-filled holiday once again :)
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