Day 10 (travel day)

The travel home day is always my favourite day, I am on the way back to the family its a long day with the route taking me from Cape Town to Johannesburg and then back to London, the journey time is 24 hours but gives me 8 hours in Johannesburg to look at the aircraft. This tour has turned out to be significantly different that I planned it to be way back in January when I first agreed to do it. I had visions of days off in a sun soaked Eastern Cape. In the end I managed half a day off in Durban, one and a half days off in Port Elizabeth of which half a day was lost when I could not get a tour to the game park and the much anticipated afternoon in Cape Town was a train wreck. On the upside I got to see a world rebound male solo performer twice including once from back stage where I got a lift to and from the gig with his band. Overall I worked a lot harder than I planned but it was a work tip after all !!!!

So it was up at up at 6AM with a pickup at 7AM, being a Sunday Morning there was no traffic and I was at the airport by 7:15. The flight was not until 9:50 so I amused myself with breakfast and watching the planes. The flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg was on time and there was not a cloud in the sky, so I spent most of the flight looking out of the window, about half way through the flight we flew over an amazing manmade feature in the landscape, I assume its a Diamond mine but I have yet to identify which one. When I boarded the London flight I realised that although I had reserved a window seat I had actually been allocated a mid seat, I was not very happy and psyched myself up for 11 hours jammed between two people. The person on the isle seat to my left arrived and told me that the seat between us was empty, things started to look up. There was a very large group of school children on the flight and as soon as boarding was complete the girl next to me got up and moved next to her friends, I now have a middle seat with both the seats next to me empty, what a result.