Final return to (and from) Jo'burg

The weather was unusually turbulent in Jo'burg during our last few days. We did a bit of shopping and spent a lot of time updating the blog as we had access to a desktop and decent wifi at last: Apologies to anyone who may have looked in vain for updates over the last few weeks! A more recent but related problem for us has been 'load shedding', an increasing frequency of 'scheduled' power cuts which threaten Christmas plans for many and the South African economy for all.

One unusual but very enjoyable outing we made was to the Lindfield Victorian Museum. The owner of the house where she had grown up, Katherine, dressed as a Victorian maid, guides tours through her rooms full of antiques and has tremendous knowledge of the objects and social history of the period. Fascinating! And as a bonus she also had a number of William books and several bits of Staffordshire!

We also visited a couple of galleries (CIRCA and Everard Read) and were surprised to spot a sculpture by Dorte Berner who we had visited in rural Namibia!

KnowThyself (Catherine Norman)

We enjoyed a few minutes of sunshine on our last day and could not resist 'Make your own Magnum' in vibrant Rosebank before catching the Gautrain to the airport and the long flight to freezing and wet London!