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Day Fourteen, Take Two - Friday 29th October
I have arrived back in England after an 8 hour flight to Dubai and a 7 hour flight to Gatwick, plus half an hour or so by car either end. Next time I don't think I'll be so convinced by an indirect flight, although the 2 hour break in the middle was good for some extra duty-free. Plus I got to sit next to two very interesting people this time - I was on the window ...
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Day Thirteen: Wednesday 27th October
My last full day in the country. Paul left early in the morning, I woke up shortly after and got ready quickly, because Wednesday is the day for Amke's cleaner, or as she calls her, her maid, and I thought it would be better if I was dressed before she arrived and I went down to introduce myself. She's a very nice lady, although only speaking broken English made it quite difficult for me to explain that ...
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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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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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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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