For the last few nights
Linda has had to put up with my cooking so we were both quite glad to
move to Mantenga Lodge and have dinner in their restaurant. The Lodge
is a little dated but nonetheless comfortable – everything worked
as it should and there was a Pool in the garden in front of our room.
The restaurant was excellent – a local specialty of flame cooked
beef was both theatrical and very tasty.
Up early for a great
breakfast and then on our way to Johannesburg. About 4 hours on the
road with a brief stop at the border crossing to reach the airport
and drop off the rental car. Then it was only a simple taxi ride to
Sue & Karen's home - or so we thought!
Our taxi driver – in
his rush to impress us - pulled out to pass a car which had stopped
at a pedestrian crossing and almost knocked down a pedestrian. He
shouted an apology and kept going only to discover that the car he
had passed was an unmarked police which pulled us over within 100
yards. An extremely irate Police Captain then gave him a severe
talking too and – because we were in the cab – told him to report
to the police station as soon as he had dropped us off.
He took us on a
somewhat lengthy detour on the way to Sue's – probably trying to
increase the fare by enough to pay off the fine he was anticipating –
so now he will also have to deal with the Taxi Commissioner as we
took his number and reported him.
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