Rainbow Nation

2010-05-18T17:31:00+01:00

Well I finally made it to South Africa for my whistle-stop tour south of the equator. I managed to get an exit seat so I wasn't too confined. During the 10 hours of flight I reckon I managed to achieve about 2 hours of somnolent state which has been enough to get me to the evening. Although I would heed the warnings about nocturnal wanderings outside the fortified compound that is the hotel I suspect it is a moot point for today. Hopefully I'll get out and about a bit more tomorrow evening. I fly back on Thursday evening which will make this one of the shorter African excursions on record. Now time to find a menu and eat something before I fall asleep.

Still here

2010-05-17T12:55:00+01:00

I should be on a plane at this point, however ash has conspired to cancel my connecting flight this morning. I'm now re-booked onto another flight this evening so I'll still be in South Africa in time for meetings just on considerably less sleep.

The weekend was lovely and relaxed. We attended to some wedding preparation on the Saturday including measuring me up for my suit and picking up the wedding rings. As I very rarely wear the things it still feels a little odd making my left hand hang a little oddly, I'm sure I'll get used to it soon enough though :-)

As I was due to be leaving home at 3.30 in the morning on Monday we time shifted Sunday to try and make the morning less painful. Fliss cooked me a wonderful roast Chicken dinner and we enjoyed a quite evening together. I was fairly relieved when the flight cancellation notification finally came through. It was much nicer waking up at a civilised time in the morning with my soon to be wife.

Alex's Adventures on the Infobahn - south africa

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Still here