Nice quiet day today - woke up late with the trains going past and ambled out to do some leisurely shopping. All the things that we'd forgotten in London - like phone & camera chargers either accidently packed in storage, or left in the hotel! One highlight of the day was the drive to drop Carol off at work, as we're borrowing her car. A conversation on the radio brought home to me how different South Africa is from Europe. DJ : "This the breakfast show...

Well here we are... Saturday was manic - late lunch with friends a match at Chelsea football club meant our cab took an hour longer than usual. Got to the airport 90 min before take-off, which luckily meant that we were rushed past the queues of people lining up for the BAA strip search experience. Quite a result really! 12 hours later (during time which we realised the powerful contraceptive effect of sitting next to other peoples' 2-3 year old children) we t...