St. George's Cathedral Cape Town

Not long after the take-off from Frankfurt (which seemed to take hours after we boarded) I learned that my 12 hour flight was actually only 11 hours because Cape Town is one hour ahead of Frankfurt right now and I didn't do the math properly. Managed to sleep 6 or 7 hours through the night on the plane. Once awake there was a problem because I was …

... to us in little Sale, or even Australia. Well we need to WAKE UP. I was fortunate enough to go to a service at St George's cathedral and watch Mamas sing and dance wearing "HIV Positive" shirts, to see Pieter Dirk-Uys (SA's Dame Edna) announce that ...

... up to the top of Table Mountain, our wine-tasting in the Stellenbosch valley, and the serene Easter Sunday service in St. George's Cathedral (where Desmond Tutu presided). There's so much beauty here! There's also such passion in people's stories. When ...

... for one day, we continued the next: ~ A walk into town took us to a large but tiresome tourist market, St George's Cathedral and it's exhibition remembering Desmond Tutu and others' role in confronting apartheid. ~ Good though it was, the Planetarium ...

... were on (the red one) only stopped 17 times but there were small things along the way. The first stop was at the St. George's Cathedral. We didn't get off but our earphones told us that it was the only church back then that was open ...

... ; The canon is still fired every day at noon out of tradition.  Our first actual stop on the walking tour was St. George's Cathedral.  During the apartheid, this whites-only cathedral was the first to allow non-whites to enter.  In the ...

... hour later he turned up - happy but tired.  While he napped, I went out to see St George's Cathedral, the oldest Cathedral in southern Africa. The gothic church is a classic cruciform building, with a courtyard garden which includes a Labyrinth. ...

... journal, we decided to go for a walk. We walked from our listing the short walk up past the parliament buildings and St George's Cathedral to The Company's Gardens.  The company in question is the Dutch East India Company.  This long garden was ...

... , which we could see through the flowers and trees.  It was all very lovely. We exited the park next to St. George's Cathedral. There was a free exhibit going on in the crypt of the church, commemorating the 1989 Cape Town Peace March, when 30,000 ...

... beach originally)! The slave lodge is a humbling experience. Slavery comes in so many different forms. I popped into St. George's Cathedral and then visited Greenmarket Square where I entered an art gallery to enjoy some Flemish paintings. Portraits and ...

Today we started with breakfast again at the hostel. Then, we walked down to St. George's cathedral to meet with Revered Damon who talked with us about the Economic Justice Network. We talked a lot about trade, debt and finance, and taxation. It was an ...