Travel – South Africa

Saturday Snapshots #247

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Beacon Island Hotel, Plettenberg Bay – South Africa, February 2008

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Grootbos Part 1 – the resort

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Alan Paton said: “There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it. The road climbs seven miles into them, to Carisbrooke; and from there, if there is no mist; you look down on one of the fairest [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #243

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Klein Hangklip – near Cape Town, March 2013

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Southern Sun The Cullinan Hotel, Cape Town

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There was a time when the bottom end of Buitengracht Street in Cape Town could possibly have been described as not the most salubrious of places. I know, because I occasionally used to head down there to go to  a nightclub called The Playground back in the day and was always careful to be very [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #242

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The mothership – Cape Town, March 2013

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Waterkloof winery, South Africa

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Isn’t it funny how nobody who does family research ever traces themselves back to Godfrey, son of Godfrey, mediaeval street-sweeper extraordinaire?  Oh no, it’s always “King Henry VIII was my third cousin’s nephew, twice removed!” or “We can trace our family all the way back to Copernicus” or similar. You’d swear that the poor and [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #193

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  Surf’s up – Noordhoek, Cape Town – Feb 2011

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