It’s not easy to understand when you haven’t travelled to the southern hemisphere! When you take over 8 hours from Johannesburg to the Mediterranean and you start comparing to the 3/4 hours you take to reach almost any country in eastern Europe from Lisbon you get a better understanding of this effect.
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yeah, and we're at the bottom - an edge of the world destination. For me to go anywhere, I have to add 8 hours to travel up the entire continent. I think it's 10 hours to London from Cape Town direct