Also, for some apparently unknown reason, we were two or three hours late getting into Pretoria. That caused our little airline to miss the "take off window" for our flights to Singita and therefore we were rushed through the station and onto the vans. It was a fairly chaotic feeling, and caused a negative feel to the end of our long train journey.
Edit to say I remember, now that Leslie has reminded me, about the tips. Mark remembered something vaguely, too.
