{A Trip to the Colonies}[14th August 1974]

[Redbook2:42][19740814:0000]{A Trip to the Colonies}[14^th August 1974]

Wednesday 19740814

            After sixteen hours or so of flight, including five different take-offs, we arrived in Salisbury at about eleven p.m..

            Johannesburg had been ghastly – an unplanned monster of a city, where all the good old has given place to brash new.  We spent six hours of exhaustion trying to get through to Salisbury via broken or non-existent public telephones and useless operators, and trying to arrange a flight.  We were very tired.  But there was less [of] obvious apartheid than I had expected.

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