Up very early this morning and out to the Hounslow Heath airport, before the break of day.
It seems that we flew all day, first
to Shannon Airport
in Ireland, then
to Gander Airport in
Canada, and finally on
to Idlewild Airport
in New York.
We spent today in New York. I wanted to
see the Empire State
Building, the tallest building in the world. My father took my sister Bev and me up to
the top, but my mother refused to come.
I had expected New York to be a big, bustling place, but it was very quiet, almost empty.
It seems that we had chosen the one day in the year when it's like that.
Today, as near as I can reconstruct, we flew in to Sydney
from Nandi
in Fiji, and then on to Melbourne and home
again, having circumnavigated the world in a little over 3 years.
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