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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 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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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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That evening, after Paul had collected me, we went round for dinner at the home of someone he works with. Their home is actually on the school campus - the school has a vast amount of land, and on it they have built houses for their staff to live in. We had roast lamb which was delicious, and then went on to a concert, although neither Paul nor I were quite prepared for what we were about to see.
It was a boy band concert ...
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After I left the internet, I wandered the grounds of the school for a while, before bumping into the lady we'd had dinner with the night before. She's organising a design technology conference, and I somehow got roped into helping to pack bags for the delegates. There were pens, but I didn't get one; instead I was given a Sprite and a cake. Guess I can't complain too much, although it took Paul 3 hours to finish what he was ...
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