Blog 3 Friday 5th October to Melbourne

A good, easy 8 hr flight down to Melbourne in the daytime but in the twilit world of 'no time' on boards, with blinds down and lights dimmed and half the passengers asleep, having flown direct from UK. We managed to get through many of the disposable Oxford Limited Editions that there is never time to read at home, as all the films were rubbish. My plans to catch up on all the films not yet seen in the UK (most) may be foiled if we only have Spiderman and Harry Potter to choose from. But reading will benefit. Disgusted to find after long wait for baggage an even longer wait to get out of customs via X-ray machines. Tempting to follow the example of one poor woman who started gibbering eventually and was taken through in a flash. This meant arriving at the Hotel Sofia in the rain and dark too late to go out again, so after hot drinks and biscuits oddly spent the night not having any sense of where we were.