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Wow, almost a month since my last blog entry. Been too busy doing stuff to write about it…

Leaving South Africa in just over 24hrs, back in my usual haunts sometime Tuesday or Wednesday. Then the great upload of pictures starts – I’ve got about 1000 images from this trip, and a wide selection of them will be winding up on my Flickr page in the next couple of weeks.

Getting home will also get me back to the land of cheap, uncapped & unmetered bandwidth – South Africa really is the far end of the world as far as ‘net access is concerned. One fairly large university here has roughly the same bandwidth available for 25,000+ students as a small office does back in Canada – and they pay far more for it. I’m going to be a lot more appreciative of Canada’s net access once I get it back!

It’s been an awesome trip, great to see RSA as an adult and see the relatives down here again. More trip highlights as I get the photos online – photos really being worth thousands of words, etc etc

Last major hurdle between self & home: retarded airport security. Shoes off and empty your waterbottles, everyone!

OK, I promise no more butchered German in the rest of this.

Made it to Frankfurt, folded up in Air Transat’s tiny seats. Narrowest seats & shortest pitch I’ve ever had in an airliner. Not fun. Breakfast consisted of something that might have been eggs in a previous life, and a small greasy sausage made of… something. Best not to speculate.

Wandered around Frankfurt’s old town this morning, probably visit one more museum this afternoon, then beer & dinner and an early night – the jetlag is still lurking. Tomorrow we’re off to a small town about an hour outside Frankfurt, to stay with a friend of the family for a couple of days before we drag ourselves back onto an airplane for the long (11-12hr) haul down to South Africa

No Flickr photo update to report – the hostel’s wireless isn’t fast enough to allow photo uploads.