Tag Archives: Nelson Mandela
All that Glitters…
We would spend our last day of the holiday in the city of Johannesburg (JoBurg from now on). Our original plan had been to just chillax and stay around the pool of our hotel and enjoy the last few hours of freedom before our flight back to Australia and work loomed. Three years ago that […]
Great Expectations
We decided to leave a bit early and scope out the docks before catching our boat ride at 11am. Quickly we discovered that the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Waterfront is more than just a few piers. With over 450 shops, museums, restaurants and hotels and covering over 300 acres of the shoreline – a city […]
Beyond Good and Evil…The Streets of Cape Town’s Past.
As mentioned in our previous post on Bo Kaap Cape Town’s past belongs to one company – the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC)). In the words of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats; All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. We would spend that morning exploring the streets of Cape […]
Table (mountain) for two!
“So. What plans did you have for today?” Eight words. A question. An endless supply of possibilities. We were just after finishing breakfast when our friendly host posed an enquiry. An opening gambit on the chess board of our new adventure. Before we could formulate a response constructed from our lists and research she followed […]
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