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Africa Time begins
... such retro brands as OMO, Sunlight & Smash) and (be warned anyone coming here) found the rather unique big round 3 pin adapter plug we needed.
I couldn't resist the day at the cricket at the famous Wanderers ground - I decided 2 T20 games were Ok for the girls especially as the 2nd game was Mumbai v Chennai. Much flag waving, cheering, dancing girls, fireworks & some spectacular hitting and catches. I've now seen Tendulkar in the ...
The Joburg Weekend
... lovely house. Steve had Bobotie (a spiced meat with egg topping dish that I had heard about before and it tasted marvelous) while I had the denningvleis…a wondrous slow-roasted piece of mutton in a brilliantly spicy sauce served with rice. Really no better way to kick off the weekend.
After a little bit of down time, Steve and I tooled around the city in a quick dusk tour of the Joburg area. The city is enormous with townships stretching far out from the city and ...
ALL the WHYs, IFs, MAYBEs...and THANK_YOUs
... the largest inland delta in the world...during this trip we also spent some time in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and in Cape Town, South Africa...but Botswana was definitely the highlight of the trip...
Maybe we will return to Africa in not so distant future...we both would love that...and by now there are actually two specific countries we have in mind for ...
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself
... his living room and his office. It was so cool to see where such an important figure in history had lived. A small local South African woman also told us more about Nelson Mandela and his life.
After all the cultural and historical information had been loaded into our brains, we went for lunch at the Soweto Mall. After a good lunch, we continued on to the city centre of Johannesburg. There, we saw (from the car, as the city of Johannesburg ...
"Thank you for visiting my office"
... had on my old scruffy shoes that I use for gardening and had put on when I went out to empty the bins just before we left!! I'm obviously no longer as organised as I like to pride myself on!
So we got to Terminal 1 and queued up to drop our suitcases off (which made me wonder why I'd bothered going online to check-in when you still have to join a long queue anyway). Mine was 5 kg under the limit so I reckon that's an invitation to buy enough souvenirs to take ...
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