Downtime

According to our original itinerary, Charlotte York and I are supposed to be enduring a four-hour drive from Ladybrand to Johannesburg, before boarding a flight to Nelspruit airport where we are to be picked up for a three-hour drive to our safari lodge.

Fortunately, we changed our plans and made the hike to Johannesburg last night. We booked a last-minute room at the Silverwood Manor and we're spending this morning in lounge mode. It's a beautiful, sunny day in Johannesburg, but we've been warned that it's a pretty unsafe town so we're just reading and lying around.

Sadly, the current renovations have robbed us of the chance to use the gym or to borrow a DVD (We're not quite sure what the renovation has to do with the DVD library, but we decided not to push it.), but it was nice to use the very luxurious shower after our refusal to get clean while in Semonkong.