The flight was very long, but everything went fine: thanks to Qantas for assigning me a seat with a lot of space around (near the exit door), I could move inside the plane without bothering anyone. Even check-in and boarding was quite easy, I expected it to be very stressing, but it was well organized. The guy sitting next to me was a French businessman going to Sydney for only a week! He left the plane in Singapore, where we arrived at 6:00 AM after 11 hours of flight. I walked a bit in Singapore’s airport: I never saw a so well organised and clean airport in the past. We took off to Perth at 7:30 with a British man who’s been reading his book all the time, possibly even faster than anatsuno, I was really impressed. I didn’t sleep at all during the 18 hours of flight (followed by a sleepless night).

At around noon, we landed in Perth, I fetched my bags, went through the immigration and custom services. I was a bit scared, looked at what happened to other people (close look at luggage, I wondered how I could close my bag afterwards). But, when it was my turn, they just asked me if I had something to declare, looked at my passport, asked me if the address on my passport was still correct, I answered “yes”, and they said “Welcome to Australia” and stamped my password and I went to the other side.
I took the taxi to go to Perth’s Central Business District, where my first hotel was. It took about 30 minutes, and it did only cost about 30 Australian dollars.
The hotel wasn’t bad at all: swimming pool, sauna, spa, fitness room, 5 minutes walk from the mall, quiet room. I tried the shower first, then I wore my summer clothes and walked a bit around, just bought some sun screen. Then I went back to the hotel, had a swim, tried the fitness for a few minutes, and went back to my room where I unpacked my stuff. It was around 7:00PM. I just tried how good my bed was, then it was 2:00AM, and decided to remove my clothes and get in it. I woke up at 6:00AM, full of enery, and fortunately, had no problem with jet lag.
(That was exactly three years ago on the day of the post!)
PS: I installed Polygott, a plugin allowing multiple languages posts in WordPress!