Travel
So the flights to South Africa were relatively uneventful—which is exactly what you want a flight to be! I had a two-hour layover in the airport in London. I decided to do a bit of yoga to relax and loosen up before the long flight, so I scouted out a quiet spot a couple of gates away from where everyone was waiting. After a few sun salutations though, a few people had come over to join in (and another few had come “just to watch”). Right there in Heathrow, I led a short, little class—it was so much fun and definitely helped to avoid much of that body stiffness and annoying restlessness that so plagues long flights!
About half of the people traveling to SA on my flight were going for the World Cup; the energy on the flight was quite different than on other flights I’ve been on insofar as everyone was talking to everyone. There were a few odd ducks, but generally speaking, everyone wanted to know which team you were supporting, and which team you thought was playing well and which one not so much, and then that led to many conversations lasting for hours on the flight. It was one of the best flights I’ve been on. And if I add in the really hot flight attendant from London—it becomes the best flight!
However, I usually sleep quite well on planes, but all total on the flights I slept maybe three hours. Probably sleepless because of the excitement, but still, 3 hours out of 18… That means I watched a whole slew of really crummy movies including the rather disappointing Ghost Writer and Dear John—a film I should have known better than to even put on. But I did get a bunch of reading done—including the SA and Cape Town books I bought. So with an unnecessarily complicated rating system, I landed in Johannesburg with a list of things I wanted to be sure to see and do. (But I won’t ruin the surprise by telling you them all yet!)
