La Rose Bed & Breakfast Cape Town
32 Rose Street Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa
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Mtentu Magic
... out with the gang. Basically just experiencing a bit of Mtentu magic.
One of the best days I had there was when Ken and Clare (the people who run the waffle house who I wrote about back in November) came to visit with their group of friends. They booked out the entire lodge and it was overrun with crazy adults who reminded me of my parents and pre-teen girls who reminded me of myself at 11. On the Saturday we shuttled them across the river into ...
Leaving Zambia
... and Hunter's, which they had been telling me about the night before but I had never had one until then. Not bad.
Finally someone came running over to me from the check in counter and gave me a hand-written boarding card with my seat assignment on it. The flight was completely full, chaotic, and hard to find space for my painting. I worried about it getting squished in the overhead bins but it made it out OK, I think - ...
Tales From the Mother City
... But what you will find, when you look closer, is the unholy difference between the haves and haves not. In 2011, South Africa was declared the most disparate country between the rich and the poor in the WORLD. Thirty percent are unemployed, 35% live on less that R20/day ($2.50), 5.5 million live with HIV, and 1 million live in shacks in Cape Town alone.
The history is unreal and lengthy, although it seems the most important history has happened in ...
South Africa
... smallest, but one of the richest floral kingdoms on the planet, and even mid winter wildflowers, native grasses and succulents blanketed it. Along with the flowers we started to notice many wild animals going about their day. The list included: South African Dassies, huge Ostriches standing 8ft tall and troops of Baboons! We climbed up the steep path to the look out point hundreds of feet above Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope and took ...
5 wives!
... awesome Americans travelling the world!
5/19
“Diving with Great Whites!”
So today we hung out in a cage with Great White Sharks, do I really need to elaborate? Well I’m going to anywayz, we took a trip down to Gansbaai, which is known for the appearance of the great white shark. We went out on a boat to a point where we were likely to see the sharks, and they had a decoy that looked like the underside of a ...



