A Package Tour - For Hampers And Suitcases

I SPENT four days in Queensland last week. My suitcase spent three. Food hampers of exotic Christmassy goodies, intended as gifts for our rural friends from the glittering city of Sydney, didn't make it. I concentrated on the dwindling number of suitcases that were sniffed and trampled by exuberant dogs before being paraded round on the carousel. When no baggage or beagles remained, a fellow bagless passenger jumped onto the conveyor belt to peer through the hole in the wall that had given birth ...