Freed Al Jazeera scribe wants to enjoy beach, sunset

February 05, 2015 08:08

He's the foreign correspondent who became the centre of an international story, but after 400 days in an Egyptian prison Peter Greste has a newfound appreciation for the simple things in life. Flanked by his parents and two brothers in Brisbane on Thursday morning, just 10 hours after arriving in his home state, Greste, a journalist for Middle Eastern broadcaster Al Jazeera, said, his mind always wandered to the same place while locked up in the Cairo jail. "You always have your dark days and I often closed my eyes and just let my mind drift to where it wanted to go and almost invariably it went to the beach, to the coast, to the sea in some form," he said.

"I didn't see a whole lot of sunsets in the last 400 or 500 days or so. I haven't seen the stars a lot. "I'm really keen to get out there and enjoy those little things. Those are the bits and pieces that really make life worthwhile."

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