Gaborone to Francistown

Trip Start Apr 18, 2007
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Trip End May 10, 2007


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Where I stayed
Metcourt Lodge Francistown
(Francistown hotels)

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

I had intended to take the train on a stretch of what was going to be Rhodes' Cape to Cairo railway.  However, there is only one train a day leaving at 9 pm arriving Francistown at 5 am.
This did not seem to be a good idea - my new pals in Gabs actively discouraged the route & plied me with sufficient Tulbach cabernet over an extended lunch at George's

Google earth reference to be inserted her

- so I took the bus the next day - a conventional coach taking about 5 1/2 hours costing P51
(At the time of writing there are c. P12.5 to the Pound; the US$ is 2 to the Pound)

Francistown is a dusty junction town; I found the Metcourt Lodge - classic motel type comfort with TV, a/c and even free wifi internet with access restricted to google and therefore gmail - great..  P380

The Lodge has an adjacent steakhouse - another T-bone - life's a drag.

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