5-4-1996

Dear Bill,

Received letter N 3. OK for the letters and photocopies you sent. I have not Further Notes on the Jungle Fowl and Pacific. Happy if you bring a copy.

Carefoot wrote to me giving his phone number and a list of train going to Preston. Don’t worry about Clive, I am organising all we need.

Later, this morning, I hope to have a definitive answer from my Travel Agent. I will achieve this letter with last and definitive news.

For the moment you must know the following:

1 - Monday April 29th, the same day you are coming to Italy, I am going to London. I will await for you in front of the door of the international arrivals Tuesday 30th at 5.20 o’clock, when the aircraft is landing. To reach the door may be you need spent nearly one hour. No problems for me.

2 - In London is living a woman friend and ex-patient of mine, from Valenza, and he is very happy to give us the opportunity to let our baggage in her home. So, you must organise, before the departure from Maitland, a little quantity of things (clothes, underwear, tooth-brush, etc) to put in my soft bag to reach Preston. The rest of my and your baggage will rest in the home of my friend.

3 - When ready, in the morning of the same day of your arrival in London, we take the train to Preston from Euston Station of London. We have a train each hour, and the duration of the trip is 2 hours and half. Before the departure I will ring to Clive to say him the train we took.

4 - We will stay in Chipping until the afternoon of 2nd of May, because Clive is busy in a business convention beginning 3rd of May. We let Chipping to reach London. We will stop and sleep in the home of my friend.

5 - The day after our arrival in London, it is Friday 3rd. The British Museum without doubt is open, and from this moment I let you to choose what you prefer to do and what you have in your mind. We have available nearly 4 days. May be it’s possible to meet Veronica at Sunday 5th of May, or the day before, as you want. May be you desire to visit the city of your ancestors etc.

6 - You must know that I have fixed the departure from England Monday 6th, at 17.45, to arrive in Milano at 20.45 (only 2 hours of fly, because of the different time Italy-England).

7 - I am in touch to purchase a walking phone. When I have the number I will communicate to you. So, if during your fly you need something, you can find me in every moment. Remember that it’s forbidden to use this phone in the aircraft, and thus the sole moments it is not operating it’s during my fly to London.

Remember that the maximum weight of your NON-HAND-BAGGAGE (the valise) is 20 kgs. In your hand baggage you can put the heavier things, and at the airport’s check-in they don’t check the weight of this bag.

Definitive fly plan:

AUSTRALIA - LONDON
FLY British Airways N 10
Departure from Sydney April 29 at 15.15
Stop in Bangkok after 10 hours
Arrival in London, Heathrow airport, April 30 at 5.20

LONDON - ITALY
Departure from London May 6 at 17.55 - arrival in Milano at 20.45

ITALY - AUSTRALIA
Departure from Milano June 24 at 19.35
arrival in London at 20.30
Departure from London at 22.25
Arrival in Sydney June 26 at 5.25

 

1 - You must be in Sydney international airport 2 hours and half before the departure - so, at midday nearly

2 - You must bring your ticket, prepaid in Italy, at the ticket desk of the British Airways in the airport

3 - They know that you are accompanied until London

4 - At this moment the check-in is open. You go to the desk of the check-in of your fly with your baggage, the passport, the ticket, and even the insurance (I think). Here, during the assignment of your place in the aircraft, remember to ask a SMOKING place. I hope that this fly is not whole smoke forbidden like mine. If so, you can smoke only in Bangkok. I will buy the ticket the next week, and when it is ready in Sydney, you must phone to the British Airways desk in the airport to be sure that your ticket is available. I will phone to you when the ticket is ready in the airport.

5 - After the check-in, you are free, but I think that some people is taking you to bring you to the customs.

6 - Remember that it’s forbidden to smoke in the airport. Only outward it’s possible.

7 - During the fly the best way to pass the time is to sleep. At any moment you need something you can call the stewards. They are very kind.

8 - At the arrival in London you are again accompanied until the police and customs. They will organise, without doubt, even your baggage until the door where I am waiting for you.

Good Easter, even to Joyce, Max, David and Chris.