Cape Town Arrival

With Easter approaching, and with a long weekend providing another opportunity for travel away from Gaborone, we flew to Cape Town via Johannesburg. The passage through the JoBurg airport was somewhat enervating. After deplaning, we picked up our luggage (booked through to Cape Town) and had to drag it several blocks worth to the area where luggage was to be picked up again by the airline and sent on to Cape Town. Unfortunately, the windows were closed, and we had to take the bags up 2 flights to the ticket counters and resend our luggage to be put on our plane to Cape Town. The airport scene was hectic, including an elderly woman in a wheel chair who had spilled all her belongings and purchases around her, blocking access to the ticket counters. With the clock ticking, we got the luggage sent off, passed through security once again, and then made it to the bus which carried us at least a mile to our waiting Airbus (300 passenger...we were in row 56, with another section behind us!) We arrived in Cape Town without difficulty, and rented a Toyota Yarus from Avis. The drive to the hotel was uneventful except that I had trouble remembering that the turn signals were on the right side of the steering wheel. It seemed that every time I wanted to change lanes, I activated the windshield wipers on the left side of the steering wheel!
This evening, we went by hotel shuttle to the waterfront, where we ate at a Belgian fish-house, Den Anker. We sat by the docks, overlooking the town on the other side of the harbor, with the smell of the sea that we realized we have missed while in the deserts of Botswana. Barbara had fish chowder and mussels, while I had lobster bisque and saffron-braised Kingslip, an African salt-water fish species. We are looking forward to taking in some of the concerts of the Cape Town Jazz Festival, which will be running this weekend. We got a preview, as our hotel is across the street from the Civic "Centre"; we crashed a cocktail party at the center museum and learned that outdoor concerts will be held this weekend across the street from our hotel!