And off we (I) go!

Thanks to the very kind assistance of Karin, who did a pre-checkin for me, all the admin stuff went quite fast. I was done with check-in, passport control, security within 15 minutes (with pre-checkin one can skip the queues and go to the business class counter to collect one's boarding pass - what a bonus!!!). Definately the most relaxed way of flying ever!

Now I'm sitting on the plane and writing my last blog from SA for a while. And what a relief it is! The last month (and the last week) was incredibly high pressure at work, so I am looking forward tremendously to this holiday. The only sad thing is that I will miss my family and friends (ja Dirk, ja De Klerk, dis nou julle!) over this next month, of that I'm quite sure. I am of course looking forward to seeing all my european friends (Regi, Louise, Rach, Nik, Sophie, Karin, Claudia, et al) this next month.

Although the seats are quite tight (smaller than SAA it seems, but I might not remember it all too clearly) I think this flight will be quite ok- I had my dealer get me some fixes to while the time (read, my med student friens get me some sleeping pills) and I got (thank you again Karin!) a prebooked aisle seat far away from the toilets. As good as it gets here in cattle class

We'll have to switch our phones off soon, so siging off from the tarmac of CPT.

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