A tale of two Sydneys

Last April two British teenagers wanted to go to Australia for their summer vacation. But it was a 24 hour trip by plane, and tickets were very expensive. So Raoul Sebastian and Emma Nunn, age 19, looked for cheap tickets on the Internet. They were lucky, and they booked two tickets to Sydney.



On August 4th, they arrived at Heathrow airport. They checked in and waited for the plane to leave. Six hours later they landed at a big airport and changed planes.


Emma: I was a little worried because the second plane was very small, but I didn’t want to say anything to Raoul.


Raoul: After only an hour the plane landed. We looked out the window. It was a very small airport. We walked to the information desk, and I showed our tickets to the woman.


“When is our next flight?” I asked.


She looked at our tickets. “The next flight? This is the end of your trip. Where did you want to go?”


“Where are we?” I asked.






Do you think they were in Sydney?


First of all guys, look for the verbs in past simple and make a list ok? Then you can continue with the final of the story.


Sydney, Nova Scotia, Population 26,000

Raoul and Emma were in Sydney, but not Sydney, Australia.



They were in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in northeastern Canada!


The story of Emma and Raoul was on television and in newspapers around the world. They stayed in Sydney, Nova Scotia, for four days. Then they traveled home on Air Canada to London, England (not London Canada).