Not as scary as it sounds!! Weekends at camp are time off for everyone and on our last Saturday we decided on a trip to Ghost Mountain Inn for some quality internet time!! GMI is a lovely fancy hotel about an hours drive from Thanda, near Lake Jozini (the south end of the lake we camped at when we went to Pongola, we camped at the North end). Some of us decided on one last boat cruise to start the day, and what a great trip it was! We saw the herd of ellies at the waters edge, lots of swimming & splashing about, and some very very cute babies!!
After the cruise it was back to the hotel for a bit of luxury in the form of a spa treatment, lunch and unlimited wifi!! And making the most of the facilities by sneaking in a quick shower in the spa, as I wasn't convinced my cabin would have any water by the time we got back to camp (I was right as it turned out!)
All week I had been thinking that I wasn't quite ready for my Great African Adventure to come to an end just yet, and after considering staying on at Thanda for 2 more weeks, but eventually deciding against that, I made the decision to go to Cape Town for a week or 2 before returning to the UK!! So I made best use of the wifi and changed my ticket for the following day so that I would be flying to CT instead of Jo'berg, with no great future plans after that!! I'd gotten in touch with an old CT friend to say I might be popping in to CT the next week if he was around for a drink and he very kindly (if not wisely) offered me the use of his spare room, since I had no actual plans of any kind!! woohoo, the adventure continues!! And I was sure it was the right decision, as about 20 minutes after I changed my internal flight, one of the other vols said had I heard about the Air France strike? Turns out that AF were planning a strike from the next Monday for 5 days, and that was the day I should be on my plane back to England! Seems like a trip to CT was meant to be!
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