Okay, I admit, I made a major travel blunder on our hotel reservations in Cape Town (and now I did it again in Paris). I had all the dates swirling around in my head, so apparently I booked them for June 6th, not May 6th. No wonder we got a better rate? When we landed at the Cape Town airport I called the hotel to get directions while Les rented a car, and the front desk guy says politely, “Uh Ma’am, we are not expecting you until next month…” Oh crap, it’s ten o’clock at night! We’ll never find a place this late. Thank God, the manager, thinking it might have been their error, very nicely called around and found us a great little apartment in Camps Bay for the same rate. Thank you Byron! And HOORAY for helpful people around the world!
I’ll go on to tell you that even though we landed at 10pm, and should’ve been at our hotel twenty minutes later from the airport. We got a little turned around in the rental car. I guess being in the southern hemisphere, add to that, driving on the left side of the car, on the left side of the road, in unfamiliar territory, in the dark, trying to read a map, very tired & very hungry… and it’s possible, totally possible… we might go east instead of west. Aarrrggghh!! A minor blunder that, once we realized it, (and I turned on my iPhone GPS map with expensive data roaming) got us in bed by midnight.
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