So we've made it to Johannesburg! A short train and taxi ride from the airport and we were at our home for the next couple of days, the Melville Palm. The good thing is that we're the only ones here .... so it's like having have a fully equipped 5 bedroom home to ourselves, with free wireless internet, and nice bars, restaurants and shopping just around the corner.
We arrived here about 8am, so we had a short nap before we had lunch and caught a taxi to the local Greyhound office to get our tickets for Maputo. Though if we'd known we had to pick them up in person we wouldn't have booked them online in the first place!
After that a walk around the sights of Melville - I thought I'd escaped antique shops but it wasn't to be ..... but as we have no room in our luggage to cart expensive collectibles all around the world, my wallet was safe!
We arrived back at the Palm just before it started pouring - a bit like the weather back home - warm but humid and overcast, then rain in the afternoon. The thunder was so loud Kathryn initially thought it was a gunshot - obviously influenced by all of the South Africa horror stories people kept telling us about before we left!!
The rest of the evening was spent sitting outdoors at one of the cute restaurants, eating and drinking .... aaaahh this is the life!!
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