haydensydney
Jun 12, 12, 7:27 pm
I found this trip report (of sorts) on a New Zealand newspaper website and I just had to share. Bursting at the seams with beautiful adjectives, I thought it would be too good not to pass around. Its nice to know that not all commercial newspaper reports aren't dry and bland...
Coming full circle around the world (http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/joe-bennett/7090583/Coming-full-circle-around-the-world)
When we boarded, the cabin crew offered a first hint of the exotic: small, Asiatic girls in clinging patterned dresses, like delicate vases. We took off over a land in a long white shroud. It was ineffably lovely.
I woke above central Australia. A million square miles of reddishness, scored by dry water-courses like the veins on a leaf. A vast blank awaiting the mineral prospectors or a foolhardy adventurer to shrivel.
We landed in Singapore in the dark. The air bridge didn't quite fit the plane's flank. Air seeped through the gap, steamy, heavy, alien air clamming the skin.
Coming full circle around the world (http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/joe-bennett/7090583/Coming-full-circle-around-the-world)
When we boarded, the cabin crew offered a first hint of the exotic: small, Asiatic girls in clinging patterned dresses, like delicate vases. We took off over a land in a long white shroud. It was ineffably lovely.
I woke above central Australia. A million square miles of reddishness, scored by dry water-courses like the veins on a leaf. A vast blank awaiting the mineral prospectors or a foolhardy adventurer to shrivel.
We landed in Singapore in the dark. The air bridge didn't quite fit the plane's flank. Air seeped through the gap, steamy, heavy, alien air clamming the skin.