Our trip from Tasmania to Melbourne - the first stage of our journey to Madrid went uneventfully with everyone arriving at the airport at Launceston on time and raring to go.
After collecting our bags at Melbourne airport we travelled to the city and visited the Eureka Sky Deck with its awesome views of Melbourne.
From there we travelled to St Patrick's Cathedral where we spent some time before heading back to the airport to check in,celebrate Mass and grab a bite to eat before boarding our flight to Rome via Dubai.
Mass was celebrated in the office of the airport chaplain, Major Winton Knop, who looked after us wonderfully and presented us each with a cross to take with us on our Pilgrimage.
The flight to Dubai was long (over 14 hours) and most of us arrived in Dubai tired little vegemites. The was a couple of hours break there before we headed off on the next stage of our journey to Rome where we arrived late morning and by the time we collected our bags and waited until Reg arrived (he travels in his own special section of the plane) it was early afternoon.
Our guide Daniel was there and welcomed us and guided us out to our transport where we met our driver Andreas who has been looking after us since.
We headed out of Rome and, after a couple of rest stops, we arrived in Assisi where we settled into our accommodation for the first night - an early night for me as I was pooped
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