Enroute to Darwin, NT Australia Cocooned in the aluminium tube that transports you toward the best part of another hemisphere, it soon becomes apparent that the month that you choose to travel determines in almost exact measure, or perhaps in a unlucky and imprecise game of chance, your lucky draw - to inherit an incessant and annoying cold from five seat rows away! With over four hours on this leg, you pass through stages for any flight - relief for an on-time departure, dealing with the streaming sunlight (note for next flight, consider the sun and how it might effect your comfort level!), the routine "service" from your attentive cabin crew, then boredom! Time for a good book or Travel Guide. The large island continent is just that - very large! Beyond the tinge of green
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