Sunday, April 25, 2010

Getting Closer....


With less than a month to go before Fiona & I hitch a lift on a plane bound for Johannesburg, everything is finally in place, arranged, and paid for. All we need now is a heap of spending money and we'll be ready to go.

All our fights out of Christchurch have been re-checked and confirmed, seat positions chosen, meals allocated, and Red Carpet lounge access sorted out. Our Namibian Safari is booked and paid for and we know that we will be travelling with only a handful of other intrepid travellers during this exciting part of our trip.

Yates has his Business class flights booked to get him to Johannesburg, via Frankfurt, and the short hop from there down to Cape Town, where we will meet him on the 6th June. Our apartment in Cape Town and our Lodge outside Pretoria have all been confirmed and the final payments made.

Both Yates & I have received our ticket confirmation packages for the 14 games we have tickets for, that we require to get our hands on the actual match tickets once we get to South Africa. I have printed out all the references, confirmations, maps, and other assorted emails and they now sit in my "special folder", just sitting there ready to go.

I have my new TomTom GPS unit ready to download the World Cup edition of the South Africa map, developed especially for foreign visitors, with POI's for the Stadiums, car parking and Fan Parks, we don't want to get lost now. And I have my laptop primed and ready and my iPod packed to the brim with music & movies.

Finally I have sorted out our Singapore stop-over holiday for the return leg of the trip, and we are booked into the Traders Hotel for 5 days of rest and relaxation, as we wind down and depressurise from the tension and excitement of the conclusion of the World Cup Finals.... Hopefully by then, we'll be laying by the pool and reflecting on a glorious World Cup Win for England....!!

As I said at the beginning, all we need is to finish up at work, tidy up the house, throw a few things into the backpack, and head for the airport... but we still have over 3 weeks left to go... DOH...!!!

Time goes by so slowly when you have been waiting so long....

1 comment:

  1. Three weeks to go :) three more weeks of work
    :( Oh well, I guess that's what's paying for it. Can't wait to get on the plane with you and get this adventure started! Fiona xx

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