Way back

Our flight was at 5pm.
I managed to get everything ready in time. Saying goodbye was sad, but you cannot avoid those moments.
We got our seats on the plane, mine was next to the window. And then the plane took off. I stuck my nose on the window and my eyes were filled with the last images of Australia. Sidney first, with its skyscrapers, the harbour, the boats, houses and trees. And then the mountains and vast plains. We flew over the Great Barrier Divide. Our ground speed was 914 km/h.
The landscape changed again. We were over the Australian desert now. There was nothing but plain red land. Only once I saw a road crossing the desert: one straight line, God knows where it was heading.
Not a house, not a hill. The clouds with their shades, stained the surface of the desert. I noticed open air mines, they looked like “holes” on the ground. Four dried up lakes dotted the thirsty soil.
After a while rock formations came along. You could see the paths of rivers running down their side. They reminded me of wrinkles on an old lady’s face.
Once on the Indian Ocean, I started feeling really tired and fell asleep.

I woke up few hours before landing in Singapore. Movie time! Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Duchess and Lemon Tree. The first one a bit of a disappointment, the second had great costumes and that’s about it, the third one was the only one worth watching.
In Singapore I only had the time to stretch my muscles and buy some tobacco and then back on the plane.. 12 hours to Frankfurt.

In Frankfurt we had to wait 5 hours before getting on our last plane to Italy. Again, my seat was next to the window. The Alps were beautiful! I cannot say the same when we approached the airport in Venice: the land was brown and wet, the sky was cloudy and grey.