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... 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.

... etaient excepetionnels mais si je n ai pas pu faire le sardine run (qui doit etre la meilleure plongee du monde), les sardines ayant du retard a cause de l eau chaude ( ce qui est interessant si on fait le sardine run n est pas les sardines mais le fait que tous les pretadeurs arrivent et ceci dans des proportions incroyables). Donc je n aurai fait que des plongees avec le requin tigre, les requins pointes noirs (incroyable car nombreux et c est toujours impresionne ...

... him around. -Went with the other students and ALL of our families to the beach for a day and swam in the Indian Ocean -Found a bakery in Cato Manor- yesssss -Started studying for my Zulu final this week (my clicks are improving... somewhat) -And, yesterday...I got to go to a Zulu wedding! One of my friends was going to a wedding in Cato Manor with her mama, and she was told that she was welcome to bring some more people with her ...

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.

... of South Africa. Not for us. The light was fading, and we turned south, heading back to Durban and beyond. This is when it happened. Suddenly, in front of us 2 cars were stopped in the middle of the N2, and traffic was fast and thick. We managed to stop, with our flashers on, but the driver behind us wasn't paying attention. I saw him the rear view with his brakes smoking, and I knew we were going to ...

... were certainly filled with what seemed like to me to be racist undertones. She's clearly struggling with all the change that's occurred here over the years. As you have read already, I have heard both black and white South Africans express their concerns over the actions of President Mbeki regarding the situation in Zimbabwe and Kenya, the recent election of Jacob Zuma to the Presidency of the ANC, and the future of the country. I went to dinner on ...

... Finally back home now and glad to have unpacked our backpacks and be having normal baths and showers. Will keep you all updated on how we are settling into our new life here in Durbs. Thanks to all of you who kept in touch over the last few months with all your encouraging emails and news from your end of the world. Hope you all enjoyed our travelpod as much as we enjoyed doing it. All our love Just and Sal

... ll wait until later or tomorrow morning when it might have calmed down.
Tomorrow I am heading to Port St Johns which is another beautiful spot along the Wild Coast here. I can see where it gets its name. After that I plan to meet back up with the guys I've been travelling with for a few days before we all go out separate ways again.
I'm having such a great time, and haven't really had chance to sit down and write any sort of detail to tell you guys back ...

... come true right in front of my eyes the wife poured me another cup of tea. Looking back at her I said "I think its time we headed back to camp now and had a large whisky, don't you?" As we drove back navigating with the aid of a map we came to a junction in the tracks which wasn't on the map. Oh dear. Left or right? Right or left? But the map doest show this track, it only shows a dead straight road? Were doomed! The wife ...

... my friend Jeremy from Watford and we spent some time at his mum's apartment in a very, very, very nice area in the north called Umhlanga. It's the Chelsea village of Durban (come on it's only my first football reference! - been rather starved out here. Well apart from one interesting result that I shall mention later) Switching from one side of the city to the other, and back again in the same day was ...