This new Johannesburg international airport would herald the dawn of the tourism industry that the country has come to rely on.
The modern building would have all the facilities that we have come to expect with modern air travel,an airport car hiring service, comfortable waiting areas and restaurants.
The architects of apartheid would not have imagined that this tribute to their great statesman would be renamed after a man who was at that time an enemy of the state.
I had a serious schooling in irony while driving a hired automobile on a recent trip to Johannesburg.
The fact that OR Tambo international airport was once known as Jan Smuts international but had been renamed after one of the great freedom fighters of the resistance movement was bought home to me by an object found in the cubby hole of a car rental.
The airport is located in North Eastern Johannesburg and is accessible from the OR Tambo airport highway.
While the new Guatrain has made the city more accessible to travelers arriving in Johannesburg it is recommended that they hire a car at OR Tambo international airport and drive the rented car into the city.
Hiring a car from OR Tambo international will make it easier to find a hotel or guest house, many of which are located in the suburbs.
There are six major car rental companies at OR Tambo international airport, so a hired car is an easily accessible option for any visitor to OR Tambo airport.
After landing I was focused on getting to my fiancés house a short drive from OR Tambo in a rented car.
My first priority naturally was to procure said rental car, OR Tambo has no shortage of hire cars, so I hadn't bothered to do so in advance.
This was my first mistake.
After standing in the queue at three different car rental agencies in OR Tambo I finally got to a counter with a very helpful young woman whose name I would love to mention but shan't for the sake of maintaining journalistic integrity and not showing favor to one particular car hire agency at OR Tambo airport.
Needless to say with no small amount of flirting I secured myself a hire car.
Once located I did the usual checking one does of a hire car for anything that previous drivers may have left behind in the hire car and had subsequently been missed by the good people at the OR Tambo car hire agency.
What I found could only have been left as a joke.
It was a blank CD with no writing on it.
I inserted it as I left OR Tambo airport in my hire car and nearly dropped my cigarette and burned the hire car as a live recording of The Libertines playing "General Smuts" blasted out.
I never expected to learn the true meaning of irony in a hire car from OR Tambo Airport.
The modern building would have all the facilities that we have come to expect with modern air travel,an airport car hiring service, comfortable waiting areas and restaurants.
The architects of apartheid would not have imagined that this tribute to their great statesman would be renamed after a man who was at that time an enemy of the state.
I had a serious schooling in irony while driving a hired automobile on a recent trip to Johannesburg.
The fact that OR Tambo international airport was once known as Jan Smuts international but had been renamed after one of the great freedom fighters of the resistance movement was bought home to me by an object found in the cubby hole of a car rental.
The airport is located in North Eastern Johannesburg and is accessible from the OR Tambo airport highway.
While the new Guatrain has made the city more accessible to travelers arriving in Johannesburg it is recommended that they hire a car at OR Tambo international airport and drive the rented car into the city.
Hiring a car from OR Tambo international will make it easier to find a hotel or guest house, many of which are located in the suburbs.
There are six major car rental companies at OR Tambo international airport, so a hired car is an easily accessible option for any visitor to OR Tambo airport.
After landing I was focused on getting to my fiancés house a short drive from OR Tambo in a rented car.
My first priority naturally was to procure said rental car, OR Tambo has no shortage of hire cars, so I hadn't bothered to do so in advance.
This was my first mistake.
After standing in the queue at three different car rental agencies in OR Tambo I finally got to a counter with a very helpful young woman whose name I would love to mention but shan't for the sake of maintaining journalistic integrity and not showing favor to one particular car hire agency at OR Tambo airport.
Needless to say with no small amount of flirting I secured myself a hire car.
Once located I did the usual checking one does of a hire car for anything that previous drivers may have left behind in the hire car and had subsequently been missed by the good people at the OR Tambo car hire agency.
What I found could only have been left as a joke.
It was a blank CD with no writing on it.
I inserted it as I left OR Tambo airport in my hire car and nearly dropped my cigarette and burned the hire car as a live recording of The Libertines playing "General Smuts" blasted out.
I never expected to learn the true meaning of irony in a hire car from OR Tambo Airport.