South Africa

A long journey to South Africa. We left the hotel in Piraeus at 11:00am. The plane (4 hours) went via Frankfurt with a six hour stop over there. Then a ten hour flight to Johannesburg with another eight hour stop over, before catching the hour flight to Peitermartizberg. Here we collected our hire car and met Mike, who had driven to the airport to show us the way to the farm.
We drove in the dark and the fog with a car we didn't know, on unfamiliar roads with a very under-powered car (990cc). There were major road works on the highway where sections went from three lanes to just one. It was peak hour traffic with huge double trucks on the road.
It was quite tricky following Mike as he overtook trucks and we didn't have enough oomph to keep up at times.
We arrived at the farm at about seven that evening.

Alison's family were there, except her brother Ian as were Roy, Gary and Britani. The photo above is of us having breakfast in the morning. Alison's 93 year old father came with Deborah and Harvey (Alison's brother) and her other brother, Rod was there with his wife, Janet.
The following day was spent creating the flower arrangements for the Reception and chapel. Alison is a trained florist and directed us to create the table decorations and the posies on the end of the pews.