Day 1 - The Flight!

Stu - After an eventful night last night we all had about an hours sleep before we had to load the car and head down to Heathrow. Sean made up for yesterday by sweet talking the lady at check in and getting up extra leg room seats!

No other dramas on the flight to Doha, the seats were great and the extra leg room made a massive difference as well as the friendly stewardess'. The views over Baghdad and Basra were pretty cool and the desert heat when we got off the plane was unbelievable. Cherie and the girls, when you go to Thailand make sure you ask for extra leg room seats too and get to the airport 3 hours before as there wasn't a queue.

We are now sat at the airport waiting for our connection flight to Joburg, the airport is quite small and the 8 hour wait is going slowly. We weren't allowed to go out of the airport so are just charging cameras whilst watching the planes taking off and landing and also catching up on some sleep. We are all looking forward to getting to Joburg tomorrow and checking into the Guesthouse, I forgot to note down what the road we need to find is...so will be an interesting drive :-)