eTravelling Around the iWorld

Here we are, sitting in a Jo’burg News Café, using their free wifi, or at least trying to because it won’t connect. It has become a familiar picture for the last three months, bags packed, a blog posted, now where to next? How do we get there? Where will we stay? It’s a mystery how we managed to travel before the internet came along.  I vaguely remember dropping off the face of the earth for months on end; maybe a postcard here or a visit to an international call centre there, but that was it.

This time around, we are fully connected, or at least as connected as the laptop wireless and mobile reception will allow. And we have also enjoyed a slightly different approach to our backpacking days. The backpacks have been dropped in favour of suitcases with wheels and we have tried to spend as long as possible at each place we have stopped, ideally about a week. Shirls has been joking that we now neatly fit in to the ’55 and Over’ travel bracket when choosing places to stay. 'Perfect for families and small children'? No thanks. 'A smart little self-catering apartment on a back street'? That will do nicely. 'Handy to some really pumping nightclubs and bars'? Ah, maybe we’ll look elsewhere. Now, if we could just get one of those pensioner rail passes…