Leaving home is always the hardest thing about travelling.
Actually, even leaving home (back in Yorkshire) after a weekend spent with my friends and family has been enough to make me cry on a suicidal Sunday journey back to London. With this in mind, I'm not quite sure how I managed to board the plane from Manchester airport last Tuesday (6th January.) This; along with my extreme fear of flying, was never going to prepare me well for a 27 hour journey.
Already dreading the 15 hour flight to Singapore, followed by a 5 and a half hour wait in the airport, followed by an 8 hour flight to Melbourne - you can only imagine my terror when me and my boyfriend were told that we have a surprise connection in Munich. Most people might despair at the extra hours added to the journey. For me, all I could think about was taking off and landing THREE times in 24 hours.
Travelling through several time zones in such a tight space of time really does send your body into AWOL.
Being offered breakfast when all I want is sleep; all I really wanted was an alcoholic drink to try and top up the anaesthetising effects of the beta blockers I'd been prescribed to try and 'take the edge' off the turbulence, which we seemed to be experiencing every ten minutes.
Needless to say, when we finally touched down safely in Melbourne - I thanked every one of my lucky stars to have arrived safely, in one piece.
Return flights from Manchester to Melbourne with Singapore Airlines, purchased from STA travel(includes 3 date change multiflex pass) £1194 per person
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