{"id":2479,"date":"2011-03-27T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2011-03-27T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:03:24","slug":"glad-to-be-back-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/from-the-road\/glad-to-be-back-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Glad to be back in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2486\" title=\"P1110516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110516.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110516-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110516-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110516-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to be back in South Africa. I arrived mid-morning along with Greg Sherwood and Sam Harrop. Together with Tim Atkin, who got here a little earlier, we are the UK contingent judging the Top100 tasting (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top100sawines.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">the website here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The three of us flew SAA, on a slightly older Airbus A340-200. This means that it doesn&#8217;t have a personal entertainment system in economy class. Instead, there&#8217;s one feature film shown on monitors dotted throughout the cabin. It reminds me of air travel in the 1980s. I quite enjoy watching films on long haul flights: it seems to make them shorter. So it&#8217;s a bit disappointing to not have the option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2487\" title=\"P1110519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110519.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110519-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110519-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1110519-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did manage to sleep, though, as well as finish off Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s &#8216;The Crossing&#8217;. A great book.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon the key to sleeping in economy class is to use earplugs, eyeshades, and drink two small bottles of wine.<\/p>\n<p>It was a glorious day in St James, Cape Town, where we are staying. The sun was out, there was a light breeze, and temperatures were in the mid-20s. I paddled in the sea and soaked up the atmosphere. I&#8217;m looking forward to this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to be back in South Africa. I arrived mid-morning along with Greg Sherwood and Sam Harrop. Together with Tim Atkin, who got here a little earlier, we are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,49],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-road","category-south-africa","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}