Getting to South Africa
After 72 hours of frantic organising I got to the airport. Further drama came.
I handed over my passport to the woman at the check-in desk. She flicked through my passport then picked up the phone. I overheard, “he doesn’t have two clear pages….right okay, he can’t travel.” My heart sank. It turns out to go to South Africa you need two clear pages in your passport and I only had one.
I was in a state of shock and spent the rest of the night trying to get an emergency appointment at the Embassy in London. Fortunately I managed to get an emergency passport the next morning, I made the next flight and was still in time to make one of the final Hotchillee transfers to the race start in Swellendam, 3 hours east of Cape Town.