Nothing quite like it, is there?
We’re back, but it was probably the worst flight I’ve ever had. Weird temperature fluctuations, a horrendously and consistently loud and upset child (not ours) and less leg room than a giraffe in a matchbox.
It wasn’t fun. It was full though – much like the one on the way out – which again fails to explain that SAA decision to pull out of providing direct flights from Cape Town to London.
Tomorrow, real life begins again.
Oh joy.
Me. The dangers of knocking back pints as if they were 340 ml bottles. Oops.
Anyway, does this count?
I say yes.
Meanwhile in the Isle of Man…
Things move slowly here. It’s like Cape Town slow and then some. Let me enlighten you as to the current to story over here on the IOMtoday website:
Police are requesting for information regarding an assault which occurred in Willaston at around 11:30pm on Saturday.
Officers want to speak with a man who is described as being in his early 20s, about 6ft in height, with light brown/blond hair in a messy style and is missing both two upper front teeth. He was wearing light blue denim jeans and shirt at the time.
Anyone with information as to the man’s identity is asked to contact Douglas police headquarters on 631212 or call Isle of Man Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
The Cape Town connection in that description wasn’t lost on me. The only thing they don’t state is whether the teeth were present before the incident in question.
I’m also well aware that I am about 6ft in height (bit more actually) with light brown/blond hair in a messy style. Having just checked, however, my teeth are intact.
It would seem that the same problems of lazy, selfish dog owners that we experience in Cape Town also exists here in the Isle of Man.
Maybe we need something similar to this message in and around Tokai Forest, as the locals don’t seem to have worked this fact out yet.
Some Snow Patrol, I think. Not because this blog is anything to do with Grey’s Anatomy (who love Snow Patrol rather too much) – we’re far more dramatic (and medically plausible) than that. No, some Snow Patrol because this video for Open Your Eyes features Paris, which is where I should be arriving this afternoon.
Yes, I’m writing this post way in advance and yes, this sort of thing has gone horribly wrong before with European capital city trips.
Incidentally, we at 6000 miles… in no way condone the reckless behaviour of the driver in this video, but we do still think the idea is pretty cool and we do wish that we could give something like this a go one day in Cape Town.
For those interested, the film used is called C’était un Rendezvous (“It was a date”) and was filmed by Claude Lelouch in 1976.
Here’s the wiki.