Southern Africa - Day 23

Tuesday, 4 February 2020 - Zimbabwe to Johannesburg, South Africa

For the first time after a very long time, I didn’t have to wake up very early. However I did wake up in a panic because my trip is coming to an end fast and I am getting more and more stressed about going home and looking for a job and sitting quietly in an office and working for the next 5 years. I’m a “rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond”; I don’t belong in an office 😭😭😭

I went down for breakfast at 8 a.m. where I met Jette and Carla. Then to my room to shower and pack, check out at 10 a.m. and then I hung around the pool area with Jette, Carla and Jack as my transport to the airport would only be arriving at 11.20 a.m.

Then I said goodbye again to the 3 of them and continued my solo journey 😢. To the airport and on the plane to Johannesburg which is approximately a 2 hour flight, but we arrived half an hour early! 

And then finally in Johannesburg. I’m not sure I like it here. It’s very different from Cape Town although it’s the same country. The people here are not very friendly, I asked for a city map and the person behind the TOURIST INFORMATION centre was with a sour face and asked me why I needed a map. Really?? Reminds me of Europe all over again 🙄. 

Then I met my driver and he was also quite guarded but when I started chatting with him he opened up and was quite nice; maybe it’s the city life that made them this way - a bit hardened perhaps.

Anyway I reached the hotel and figured out what I wanted to do for the next 2 days. Then I had a beer (Black Label Carling Beer from South Africa) and sat in the garden by the pool all by myself writing this blog and I really missed my guys from the tour because there was always someone you could talk to (whether you wanted to or not) but here there was no one, I was really all alone 😢.

But then I went to order another beer and there was this couple from Denmark who said they remembered me from Cape Town and we ended up chatting about our trips; they did 20 days on the eastern route, we did 20 days on the western route but somehow we ended up in the same place. We were later joined by 2 Swedish couples, they were all really nice which made me think that maybe I should make a trip to the Scandinavian countries soon. They certainly seem nicer than Europeans 🙄. 

But maybe I’m too judgmental.