England play their second match in the World Cup at the spanking new Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, which looks like an enormous flying saucer at the foot of Table Mountain. There can be few more spectacular backdrops for football anywhere.
Johannesburg
Poor old Johannesburg — few places on Earth get such a bum rap. There’s no denying that the city of gold has a disturbingly high crime rate, but it’s not the hell-hole of urban legend. It’s worth remembering that most front-page- headlining acts take place in areas a tourist would never go to. Would you visit New York and head straight from JFK to the dodgiest parts of the Bronx or step off the Eurostar at Gare du Nord and mooch around the 20th arrondissement in Paris?