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Journey to the Land of Flying Barges

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Kelpies at large. (Image by Steven Straiton and Wikimedia CC BY 2.0)

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The last stamp

My passport makes for sad reading. The last time it saw any serious action — apart from a couple of Trans-Tasman trips, and you don’t even get stamps for those — was 2019 with a weekend in Mainz.

Meine letzte große Reise. (Image by author)

Those were the days! Qatar Airways had an international flight out of Canberra to Doha. Admittedly, it stopped at Sydney there and back. Still, it was one seat on one aircraft all the way to Doha and more importantly, the passport control and customs facilities were in Canberra, avoiding that inconvenient transit bus and the horrid scrum at dawn in…