It’s a long way from Canberra to most places. Dublin is no exception. In fact I think it’s the second furthest I’ve traveled in a single block, the longest being Melbourne to Iceland.

Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, London, a brisk walk in shorts and a t-shirt between terminals, Dublin.

When I first booked tickets over 12 months ago it was the usual Canberra to Sydney to Singapore to London. Over the course of the next 12 months Qantas made something like 8 changes to my tickets – usually just a change in flight number at the same time between Sydney and Canberra on the return leg, then at some point they changed it completely from via Singapore to ‘direct’ via Perth.