Is it just me, or has travel become a pain?
Because this is Africa, the rules are a moving target that are never quite fully disclosed. Sometimes your vaccination 💉 certificate is required, often not. Sometimes there is an interrogation around how many booster jabs have been had and how long ago. Mostly, nobody cares.
Also, because this is Africa, there is someone having a beer 🍻 at the airport. 6:30am. We don’t judge.
One thing that irks me with air travel, is the request to remove your shoes. I always forget this and wear difficult to remove shoes.
I have also had to surrender my tweezers at the scanner.
I will be boasting a uni brow in a few days.
Another irksome thing is the different baggage allowance based on destination. These, presumably, are based on union negotiations as to how much weight the baggage handler is prepared to lift. But as a result, one must plan around the lowest weight allowed on a staggered trip.
I can tell you for nothing that Cape Town need to gym it up.
Why would they not rather give you a total allowance and then a max per bag? To standardise worldwide?
Who knows?
I am, of recent, bucking the system and hoping no one weighs my hand luggage.
Because I have to carry my office with me when I travel, and I REALLY like working with multiple screens, I invested in some portable screens.
They are great, but not light.
My laptop bag weighs more than my suitcase.
If a plane I’m on goes down and they can’t figure out why, you can enlighten them. I am, far from light.
I know you have to carry your office with you when you travel darling, but I observe that I am the one actually hauling this bag around, my lovely man mentioned.
Yes darling, make sure you don’t indicate how heavy it actually is, or they may arrest you.
Interesting topic , some years ago, we travelled to Cape Town (Saldanha Bay) for a wedding. We took 3 suitcases and paid for them on the flights but I forgot to book them on SafAir …When we were leaving we checked in and they said we hadn’t booked luggage so we had to pay R250 each fark ….
If it wasn’t for the fact they were borrowed cases i would have thrown the 2 boys into 1 ditched the other and only paid for 2 .
My son recently flew to Cape Town now and his luggage allowance is 30kg
Some friends asked me to take some boots 👢 down but we had to check the luggage Lucky I have a smart digital scale I could put it on….Mm Digital scale also checked the BMI ..🤣
So funny. Luggage can surprise you for sure. Not in a good way. I am going to CT end of year and was advised 20kg!
Hysterical re the BMI. 😂
Thanks for the good laugh😂😂😂 needed that
You are always so lovely Colin. Thank you for being so special 😘
As always very humorous my friend xxxx
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As always hilarious my friend xxxx
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As always, such a pleasant, uplifting take on an actual serious subject! Thanks Rosie!
Thank you my dearest Renate 💕
I have to admit, I’m in the habit of carrying a “Biltong knife” or small “switch knife” only ever used to cut cheese on a road trip or something just as insignificant. But on this note I have flown through Mozambique and SA unaware that the knife was still in my laptop bag. I too carry my office with me 🙂
Oh wow. And they took my tweezers! You were lucky 🍀 😉😊