The Gautrain

Because I'm a closet geek I have created a Twitter account and I must say I'm having lots of fun with it - there are some very clever people there I would never have met without it.

On Saturday morning I joined a group of 200 tweeters on a tour of the Gautrain in Midrand. After getting almost hopelessly lost following Walter's directions (and my GPS, Bob, was sulking) I finally got there 20 minutes late. I'm extremely thankful I didn't just give up and go home because the surprise of the day was a trip on the Gautrain to Marlboro station.

 It's a very pretty train - and it's also very fast. We reached 160km/h on our trip to Marlboro station

 The station still needs some work but all the workers were quite excited to see a train full of people and waved at us cheerily as we pulled in.

The view from the train heading back to Midrand from Marlboro station. Who would wilfully sit in the traffic on the M1 with this as an alternative?

The big screen in the station showing all the tweets being sent live as the presentation was made

Although I'm not really a rah-rah socialising type I will admit to having enjoyed this and I'd urge everyone who can to take a trip on the train once it's officially launched.