Italy again: SIP 2015 at the Workcenter: beginnings
So, to begin at the beginning. Always hard for me to know exactly where the beginning is, because everything affects everything else. But to start on the day of departing Melbourne, there was a delay on my flight from Melbourne to Dubai, which meant a couple of things: first that I had an extra hour and a half to pack my bags in Melbourne, which was good and meant that I was actually ready to go (although I still did not pack very well!) and also the delay meant that I missed my connecting flight to Rome and was at Dubai airport for six hours waiting for the next flight.