Daughters of Lace

Francesca, in Australia, Chapter 2

Photo by William Bayreuther on Unsplash

We’d been flying over a flat brown land, cut through with glimpses of a sharp blue sea for hours but, finally, a city scape appeared below. Nearly twenty-four hours of travel since I left England and I was almost in Melbourne, Australia. I stared out the window, misting the plexiglass with my breath, my nose tip gr…