Beechwood Durban

... in Durban is limited. Despite almost constant rain, I've enjoyed walking around the city a bit and visiting several small museums.

Tomorrow I'm heading up into the northern Drakensberg mountains, where I hope the weather will be good enough to hike and ride horseback over the next couple of days.

... doesn't really inspire a walk on the beach. I think most of us with be napping this afternoon, since we had to be up early this morning to leave St. Lucia at 6 am. Tonight, we'll have a final group dinner before 4 of us leave the tour. The other 10 are continuing on another leg of the trip with Gap Adventures to Cape Town, for which I gather a bunch of new folks are joining them.

... shower for the day.  Hmm possibly.  There was a family doing acrobatics and contortion which was amazing.  Feet on or behind heads, tower of 3 people balancing on nothing but the person belows head, backflips etc.  They were really good. From there we continued walking up the beach to the ABSA Stadium, home of the Sharks, where we had tickets to see Sharks v Brumbies in the Super 14's.  Good pre match atmosphere with people dressed up and face painted ...

... in the spiritual and physical spheres. They have managed at least four church regions and have done an outstanding through LifeNets in effectively raising the standard of living of people living in the fourth poorest country in the world according to the United Nations. At breakfast we talked about a person in Zimbabwe whose well had become dysfunctional because of a ...

South Africa is really... white. Durban is dangerous at night and there
is a huge mall. They have blackouts every day for two hours at two in
the afternoon, and even the malls shut down.

... I did manage to go shopping with the two caregivers on Thurs. to buy the toys that I need to conduct play therapy with the four oldest children, which I plan on starting this week. On Fri., I met a white South African woman who, along with her husband, adopted a black, HIV positive boy from iThemba Lethu. I'm going to interview her and her husband this week for a cross-cultural ...

... had struck we were pretty sick of them. For the 5th time in my life i met someone who shares the same birthday as me, in addition there were 2 more cascolanders who had birthdays 2 days before and a day after so we joined forces and funds for all the fun and frolics we could muster just one week before the festival kicked off. Xavier, a french artist, married to a SA woman, who'd lived in London for 11 yrs but last year they moved back to ...

... helt kompatibelt med 25grader och regn, men nu nar det blivit morkt kan man njuta av den lilla plastgranen, ljusen, de Strandbergska branda mandlarna (Tack!!) och en kopp te. Igar var ocksa en bra dag i goda vanners sallskap. Forst en kaffe med William, som bor I Cape Town annars, men som ar har over helgen hos sina foraldrar. Jag bjods med hem pa lunch pa verandan, och fick aterse de tva syskonen som numera bor I England. Hela eftermiddagen ...

... food other than Mexico and the US. I have my doubts even about South America. Port Elizabeth (PE) I arrived in PE at 11pm and left at 7am. I've been told it's not worth it to stay by just about everyone, so I took the advice. East London Meant to leave East London immediately but due to a miscommunication I spent one night at a backpacker's right off the main surf beach. There's not much to see in East London. The backpacker's did have a very nice lookout tower at which ...

... a mirror, mini set of drawers and a heater, not to mention the obligatory resident spider. It might sound as if I'm being sarcastic, but I mean it.. it was lovely! The rain was pouring it down .. I mean torrential weather. So I settled in and decided to go out....... perfect film going weather. I made my way to the cinema, by which point it was dark and the rain had completley drenched me through. People ...