The Blue Train.
// August 4th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Cape Town, Time, travelling
Tomorrow morning, first thing, my man and I are heading off on an adventure, by train!
We’re catching the Blue Train, a ‘five star moving hotel’, as they like to call it, from Cape Town to Pretoria (near Johannesburg).
Here’s what they say about our trip…
“The route between Pretoria and Cape Town is a 27-hour journey of 1 600 kilometres (994 miles), through some of the most diverse and spectacular scenery offered by the African sub-continent.”
Sounds lovely! And it looks like a pretty incredible experience… Check out their website here.
It’s technically for work, we’re writing (and photographing) a review about it for Just the Planet, but it’ll be a mini-holiday too. We are really in need of a break! We’ve been working at breakneck speed to get everything organised for our trip, and we really need some quality time with each other where we don’t have to talk about work…
Once we arrive in Pretoria we’re getting our Mexican visas (woohoo!) and then spending a night or two at an as-yet mystery location, before spending two days with my man’s brother in Joburg and six delicious days in Durban with my family. Lovely lovely lovely!
If you want to follow our travelling route, I’ll be blogging from Sweet Life for the next couple of days (I need to get into practice for next month!) but I’ll pop in here next week too, never fear.
Now it’s time to tie up a couple of loose ends, do some final work, pack, and hopefully get a good night’s sleep so we’re bright-eyed and bushy tailed for our train trip in the morning!

















