Cape Town V - Part 2

As I said in Part 1 we were bumped forward to an earlier flight... the knock on effect was that we had a 5 hour wait at Dubai Airport instead of 2 hours. But looking at the departure board there didn't appear to be anymore flights that day from Dubai to Cape Town so had we missed our connecting flight we would have been stuck in Dubai for over 24 hours!

After scoffing a double whopper with cheese meal at 4am we settled down for a doze on some really uncomfortable seats in the departure lounge.

The highlight of this second flight was that we got to see the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the world's tallest building on take off. It looked incredible even though we were a considerable distance from it. It was at least 3 times taller than any other building the city!! That's one-up on you PSR!!!

I settled down to watch Fantastic Mr Fox... an altogether far superior film to the earlier two I had seen on the London to Dubai flight. The lo-tech stopmotion animation made the film for me. Clooney was excellent as the ultra-cool and sardonic Mr. Fox. Rating: 7/10.

At last we arrived at Cape Town International and were met by JH and AH. At the Budget rental car counter we were told we were having our car upgraded... this sounded promising. However when we got to the parking space we discovered we had been "upgraded" to a Hyundai Getz. I dread to think what we should have had!!

To be continued...