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Spending 23 hours in economy class will cure anyone’s wanderlust

6 January 2018

9:00 AM

6 January 2018

9:00 AM

For some reason, I decided to go to the other side of the world for Christmas. I may never do it again. Not because I didn’t like Australia (I loved it) but because it takes forever to get there. And spending 23 hours with your knees under your chin on a long-haul flight to the Antipodes will cure you of ever going further than Calais.

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