Pretoria, doing, well, nothing…
Thursday, April 26th, 2007So we land in Johannesburg, South Africa to tons of fanfare! Balloons! Whistles!
Okay, actually, the most lackadaisacal (sp.) customs I’ve ever been through. Stamp stamp. That’s it.
We were then met by a lovely shuttle that bopped us up to Pretoria straight to North South Backpackers. We, well, mostly I, decided to stay up here in the burbs because of all the horror stories about Joburg. Really nice place with really friendly managers. Met some really great travellers that gave us their impressions of other parts of Africa.
Had some nice, cheap wine. Even SA box wines are pretty good! Castle, the local lager, tastes, I know, such a shock, like Bud. But cheaper than Bud. So what more can you ask for?
And the food – pretty darn good, although we’re kind of cheap with food – the burgers and chicken are really good with great sauces (can you say HOT!)
So the only thing we did besides relax, eat, go to the internet for a couple of days is we went to the Voortrekker monument. Really, quite a cool place, but it’s kind of like building a monument in the states of how the settlers stole land from the Native Americans. Kind of the same thing – where the Boers stole land from the Zulu.
Anyway, wasn’t this an exciting post? I just felt I should say something about doing nothing!
Cin
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