Our flight from Dubai landed in Melbourne on time and we disembarked, cleared immigration, collected bags and cleared customs easily before heading across to the domestic 'terminal' (oh this is so easy in Melbourne it makes me wonder why we leave the country from Canberra via Sydney with that bus transfer!).Then into the Qantas lounge to while away a few hours before an on-time departure for the flight to Canberra.A big thank you to Dayne for collecting u...

We arrived in Dubai just after midnight and had about 8 hours to wait till our flight departed for Melbourne. Fortunately we had booked this flight as a Qantas flight which was codeshare with Emirates, which meant that my Qantas Club membership kicked into benefit overdrive and we were able to spend the time quite comfortablly in the huge, spacious Dubai Emirates lounge.After checking out the space options and finding that pretty much all of the flat beds were ta...

As expected the day dawned with clear blue skies and JJ and I prepared for our departure, which included our routine email clearing and as I expected to be back at work next week, for me it included a call to a client and their application planning. After sampling the fare of the bakery downstairs (previously photographed) we each set out for a couple of hours to revisit favourite or visit new sites and sights, and to do some last minute shopping - we decided the...

It was another fine day dawned in Venice with sunshine all round, and after a sleep-in after the utter exhaustion of yesterday, we decided to have a relatively slow day today. As we each had different items remaining on our 'must see' lists, JJ and I set off in different directions, with an agreed time to meet later in the day.My first agenda item was to sort out our transport to the airport tomorrow. This was solved pretty quickly when I found out that w...

Today was an over full day of activities in Venice, with clear blue skies....what a treat, making it easy to take far too many scenic pics of the city, canals and people (mostly quite touristy, traditional pis that many of you already have, so forgive me if you find this just a little ho hum, but as a first time Venice visitor I am sure you will understand me for getting caught up in the city's delights, sights and sounds) as we ventured out on a journey of d...