Up early, caught up with Tom and Kathy at the international terminal at JFK. Checked in to our flight to Johannesburg, then waited three hours to board. We discovered you can’t move between terminals without going through security, so rather then return to Terminal 4 and the lounge, knowing we would have to go through security to get into Terminal 4 and go through security again returning to the international terminal, we decided to stay put. Going though security three times, midmorning at JFK could be problematic.
Full flight on an Airbus 340, their equivalent to the Boeing 777. So, 15 hours of nonstop travel; what do you do? Two meals, lots of waiting in line to use the bathroom, snacks, reading and movies. Three movies for me. Noah, Pompeii and Grand Budapest Hotel. I’m familiar with the first two. All revisionist movies. Noah was “inspired” by the Biblical account. Indeed, I had read earlier is was equally inspired by Jewish tradition and myth. It didn’t sanitize the destruction and genocide as our Bible stories do. I did have issue with the “rock creatures” though. But entertaining. Noah was under a lot of stress.
Pompeii was a bit of a stretch too. Having visited it last year, the actual city and the one depicted in CG were quite different. Also, the incessant fireballs, love story and background music were assumed as well. Grand Budapest Hotel was the most entertaining, only one person died, not millions. Good quirky fun.
Another three hour layover in Johannesburg, then a two hour flight to Capetown. We hitched a ride to the waterfront, in the afternoon, mostly a breakwater and a shopping mall. Breakwater was of serious construction. Early on in history the discovers name the cape around the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Death. It was quickly renamed the Cape of Good Hope. New name, same weather. Spin in the 15th century.
Coincidentally, during the World Cup this year, we stumbled on the main stadium for the 2010 World Cub, here in Capetown.
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