18/03/18

Ok so today has been a very quiet day with Martin's friend Phil not surfacing all day.

We just had a lazy morning and then i headed out to get Betsy cleaned of all the sand and dust we had picked up from our last leg in Namibia. Something very satisfying when she is clean and the organised.

With little to occupy us we headed into Sandton for lunch and to look around Nelson Mandela Square. A very impressive complex strikingly similar to Broadgate. With lunch in a fine restaurant and the purchase of some high quality Ribeye, dinner was sorted.

I wanted to see the old CBD so we had a little excursion into the old part of town, to see what remains after the main businesses decamped to Sandton. I have to say it was an eerie place where you could city former glories but with an undertone of menace. With Betsy playing up a bit we didn't hang around but we were pleased we had seen it. I know Charlie would have been uncomfortable and it would have made a great location for zombie apocalipse film.

As we were heading back the heavens opened and the torrential rain and lightning made this little excursion all the more dramatic.

The evening was a quiet one watching a film and early to bed. Last night had taken its toll, most dramatically on Phil, who apart from some fleeting glimpsies didn't leave his room the entire time.

Tomorrow Betsy in for a check up and rep