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After taking a look at the nice beach outside Maputo we returned to the "safety" of Swaziland. The next day we took the bus to Johannesburg and stayed the night at the Drifters Inn. On our final day in South Africa we went on a guided tour of Johannesburg before flying home to Norway in the evening.

South African Adventure 1999, Part 11: From Swaziland back to Johannesburg and home to Oslo

Jan Arild Teland
2006-05-08 20:37:40

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today, as we didn't see her. Actually, we didn't have any problems with the crew during the flight, but we didn't ask for any assistance either, so it's impossible to tell whether they would have helped or not.

Day 32 - July 28

I couldn't fall asleep on this flight either, so I was very tired when we arrived in Frankfurt at 0600. Since we're trying to be objective, we'll say something nice about Lufthansa now. The landing in Frankfurt was the softest landing we'd ever experienced! I'm sure that after this the pilot can't have much hope for a career at Lufthansa. They've probably sacked him by now....

Now we had to four hours to kill at Frankfurt Airport. It was incredibly boring, because now we really were looking forward to coming home, but somhow we came through it. Not surprisingly, though, our Lufthansa flight back to Oslo was further delayed, making us having to wait an extra hour.

In all their wisdom, Lufthansa had, of course, overbooked the flight quite heavily. Not finding enough volunteers to catch a later plane, they had to deny a lot of people flying with us. This was not very popular among the crowd, but fortunately they didn't pick us.

We landed at Gardermoen around 1300. Safe old Norway, it was really great to be back! Our baggage took an age to arrive, so we were starting to worry that this was a final trick which Lufthansa had up their sleave, but fortunately both our backpacks arrived undamaged in the end.

On the bus into Oslo, there were two things which struck us: First, everything around us was so nice and green, and secondly, everybody seemed to be driving really slow! (Speed limit in Norway is 90 km/h on the motorway).

Arriving at my appartment at Ammerud, a north-eastern suburb of Oslo, we finally declared the tour officially over. It would now be nice to have some time to relax and "process" all our new impressions. We both agreed that it had been a truly wonderful holiday, worth every single rand. For us it had all been a real adventure - an African Adventure!