Australia

We made it! We went staff travel (standby) but we got on all the flights and were upgraded to business on the longest sector, thanks Kate! It's winter here but as warm as an Irish summer.

Our bus at Dublin airport

Sunset taxiing from Dublin

Business class!

Abu Dhabi control tower

Abu Dhabi landscape

Pressurisation on landing at Sydney

Gold coast

Arrival at Bris

Goodbye Kate

Goodbye Kate, July 2012

Six months or so ago Kate emigrated to the land of Oz.

A few Sundays ago Ali and I were invited to the bungalow for afternoon tea - strange I thought, we don't usually bother with afternoon tea! We duly sat down and ate cakes and suchlike and then - in walks Kate. All the way from the land of Oz!

Etihad flight takes off from Dublin airport, December 2012

Strange to think that Kate is there somewhere between those lights in the sky. Goodbye Kate, thank you so much for coming to see me, for loving me that much. I will never forget.