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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Travel
Katie Cunningham

Away with Anton Enus: ‘We blew a whole week’s budget on a hotel buffet’

SBS World News host Anton Enus sitting at a news desk.
‘Always have a really good book, plush eye mask and, not least, noise-cancelling earphones,’ says the SBS World News host about flying long distances. Photograph: Yianni Photography/SBS

Anton Enus will never forget one of his most stressful travel moments. In a rush to catch his flight home, the journalist and presenter hopped out of a taxi at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport without his bag – containing his passport, wallet and phone.

“I felt like I was having two heart attacks at the same time,” the SBS World News host says, remembering his reaction. “Our saving grace was that we had booked the taxi, not hailed it. So we called the hotel, who contacted the taxi company, which radioed the driver, and he came back to the airport to reunite me with my bag.”

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