Diary: October 2004
African Adventure Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Today we flew to Cape Town. The teacher from last night gave us a lift to the airport, and I had an uneventful flight, apart from being asked to swap seats yet again so that a girl could sit next to her boyfriend. Almost every flight I have ever had I have been asked to do that - and I bet you if when I get on a plane with my girlfriend and we're separated by a row, nobody will swap for us. Still ...
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Day Eight - Friday 22nd October
We started the day by heading into wine country, and for Boschendal wine farm in particular. As I think most people know, the cape is renowned for its fruit and wine production; wine production started here when the french, not content with contaminating one country, wandered through and decided that the flat land between the cape mountains would be a perfect place for vineyards. After a while the vineyards became infected and were sold off cheap to someone who ...
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Day Nine - Saturday 23rd October
The start of today was quite typical:
Paul: "We have a tour booked around Bo-Kaap today."
Me: "Around who?"
Paul: "I don't know, my book said something about it, so I booked it."
And I'm very glad he did.
When we arrived, we found out that Bo-Kaap is the Muslim area of Cape Town, and is home to the cape's first mosque. With many of the people who live there descended from Malay slaves, the area ...
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Day Eleven - Monday 25th October
Being our last day in Cape Town, we wanted to see the view from the top of Table Mountain. And as it's only 1073m, we thought we might as well climb it. So we went to the Waterfront for supplies in case we got lost or stuck (water and chocolate), and headed for the cableway station at the bottom. Unfortunately, on our way over we noticed that the tablecloth was on (there were clouds pouring off the top ...
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African Adventure Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Right as the hour ran out, our flight was called. Great timing or what?! The two-hour flight was uneventful and quite boring - I must be getting used to this stuff, this being my fourth in two weeks. But nevertheless, I do enjoy it, and after we had landed I found myself quite attached to the plane. Well, to be precise, my trousers were; they were stuck to the seat. It turns out that for the past two and a half hours I had been ...
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