Well, we're here: after a loooooooooong (painfully long) day of travelling, arrived in Cape Town right on time last night. Our flight left Sydney at a fairly reasonable time on Monday morning, but after fourteen hours, we were pretty beat when we touched down in Johannesburg. Customs was quick, though, and we had to recheck our bags for the connection into Cape Town. I did something rather embarrassing at the airport in Johannesburg. I was, as mentioned, really tired when we arrived, and I'd been wearing my glasses all day. I rarely wear glasses because my vision is so bad that I can't see well out of them, and contacts are much more comfortable and I can see a lot better. Anyway, in my exhaustion, coupled with the fact that my perspective was distorted through the
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