Monday 26 February 2007

Leaving Johannesburg

Monday, 26-Feb-2007: This morning, I visit TSI Communications in Aeroton for a business meeting. Paul and Andre make me most welcome and I am impressed with their product range and their operation.

I'm picked up by taxi and returned to the Michelangelo. I walk around Sandton, looking at the huge shopping mall and the numerous restaurants offering every type of food you can imagine. Very Canary Wharf. I've a little time left to relax at the Michelangelo, so I have a light lunch in the hotel. The architecture may not be to my taste but the well-run hotel's obsessive attention to detail scores highly with me. Afterwards, I spend some time in a very decent book shop and talk with a very interesting salesman there about various topics, including the iniquity of charging Luxury Tax and VAT on books, as they do in South Africa. A shower in the hotel then I'm picked up by CC Africa and taken to the airport. Shortly, I'll be boarding the flight to Cape Town, the last place I visit on my marathon journey before returning home.