First, we miss our flight to Adelaide...

On Saturday it was foggy in Dubai. On Sunday afternoon QF8016, operated by Emirates, took off from Gatwick and I was en route to Adelaide via a two hour stopover in Dubai. 'The weather is lovely and clear in Dubai,' the captain remarked, as off we flew. I was well and truly on my way to perform on the Adelaide Festival Fringe.

words fail me

However - when we arrived in Dubai we found that the connecting flight to Adleaide had already left WITHOUT US. A group of about 20 travellers besieged the transit desk to find out what they were going to do about it. We soon realised that the answer was 'not much.'

that is not my bag. That is a hello kitty bag

We whiled away the next three hours chatting and forming a good natured pressure group to make sure that the insouciant people manning the desk did not stop trying to find seats on other planes for us. As these insouciant people suggested nothing and shrugged and deplored the fact that there was only one flight per day to Adelaide (no we DON'T want to wait here 24 hours,' we said), one of our group suggested to them that they could re-route us via Perth or Brisbane. They very slowly began to do just that. By 4 in the morning we were all sorted out and given  food vouchers so that we could spend what remained of the night in the airport. Our flight to Perth left at 10.00 am the next day and the plane was half empty. It was nice to be able to stretch out across a whole row of seats and catch up on some sleep. Twelve hours later we landed in Perth, where it was 3.00 in the morning. We took off for Adelaide at 6.30 am and finally arrived at about Midday. And then we found that our luggage had not come with us!
I was in Adleaide to play the guitar at 5 venues for the Adelaide Fringe and I had not got my guitar. It's like one of those nightmares when you are about to go onstage to play the lead role in Hamlet and you suddenly realise you don't know any of the lines.