Hi Everyone,
We are now in South Africa for our overnight stay at the Southern Sun airport hotel. The flight from Perth to J'burg was terrible! Like a bad omen for the flight to come when our plane took off one of the air vents above the overhead compartments came crashing down in the aisle right next to us! I was became sick and faint after our lunch and ended up vomiting it all up! Of course I felt better afterwards, until the round- bellied man sitting in front of us started farting continuously for the next 8 hours.
However, the hotel we are staying at is very nice and the staff are very friendly! We met another Brasilian/Australian couple who were very nice and a lady from Mozambique in the immigration queue at the airport who was on her way to a UN meeting. At the hotel we watched some TV and found a South African Soap Opera show and noticed we could understand a few things they were saying but it sounded like a completely different language! We asked around and we found out that they speak a mix of english and 4-5 other afican languages, so Andre has been learning some zulu and other african words to impress the locals with! So here is what he learnt;
How much? = Malini
How are you? = Unjani
I'm good = Ngiphilile
Thank you = nyabonga
Not sure of the spelling but they understood Andre ok!
For dinner, we went down to the hotel bar for some South African food, we ordered Springbok carpaccio (55 rand from memory), spicy crispy beef with rice and asian greens and a castle beer. The food was wonderful although I didn't try the carpaccio as I had forgotton that meant 'bloody as hell' but Andre said it was delicious!
So we crashed at about 11pm and had 3 alarms set for 5am!
