Jetlagged in Jo'Burg
Trip Start
Oct 01, 2007
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Trip End
Jan 07, 2008
Johannesburg,
South Africa
Sunday, December 9, 2007
This is a quick one...I'm just in Jo'burg airport on my way to Capetown. I've just had a 14 hour flight which was hellish - although I did manage to get an exit seat...but next to the fattest man on earth (who was very pleasant all the same) and wedged right next to the exit door which has a great big sticky out thing where the inflatable escape ramp deploys from...so not very much room at all basically. But I made it and I did manage to get a little bit of sleep. As I type this my eyes are practically closing! Don't you just hate long distance flights that mess up your body clock. It's 7pm here local time which means I've been awake for about 24 hours now. My flight to Cape Town leaves at 9pm so with any luck I'll be tucked up in bed in a nice hotel somewhere within 4 hours.
Tomorrow I'm going to do some catching up with the blog and fill in the sections on Uluru and Cairns/Port Douglas.
By the way, I was very lucky because I've managed to catch an ear infection the last few days and it's been very painful and uncomfortable. I was so worried about cathching the plane because I heard that flying with ear infections can be excruciatingly painful and lead to permanent ear damage...! So I went to a doctor in Sydney yesterday and he said I'd be alright to fly and he gave me some antibiotics. Thankfully he was right and my ear was fine throughout the flight. Thank goodness for that. Amazing that I've never had an ear infection in my entire life and then the one time I do is that day before I fly 14hrs across the Pacific Ocean (or is it Indian? I don't care at this stage of the day). But from what I've read it's not uncommon to get ear infections if you're diving (I was snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef and I went quite deep and didn't equalise).
Well I'll close now...I feel I'm starting to ramble!
Cheerio,
Martin
Comments
Barrier Reef
All sounds great but before I read about the white sharks - you said nothing about the great barrier reef other than you went there to dive unless I missed something. What was that like?