Maries B&B Camps Bay

... front desk a couple of nights a week. He is engaged to a Colored woman (more on that much later) and considers himself a liberal, post racial and progressive thinker. As he knew my plans for ...

... we said, “That is probably us.” It turns out that it was.

This morning, we joined their church service. Then, a few of us went to the flea market where we heard there is an amazing sandwich called a Gatsby. These sandwiches are about a foot and a half long and filled with chips (fries), lettuce, sauce, and any meat you choose. We chose ...

... for its multitude of wineries. To dispel all shyness among the group, we embarked on a day-long tour, with Easy Rider Wine Tours (which is found at the Stumble Inn), and we visited 4 wineries during our 'cultural' excursion. Alas due to the frequent sampling of different wines, I cannot recall all the names of the wines that we sampled. However, even in my mild state of inebriation, I do recall which wineries we went to: 1) Seidelberg ...

... to be a one-jump deal and i knew i had to do it so kent wouldn't call me a sissy pants for the rest of the trip. when i post the pictures, they won't do it justice. kent swears the cliff was at least 3-4 stories tall. as i walked over to the area where you inch out onto the ledge, my stomach was in knots. as i s-l-o-w-l-y inched my way onto the ledge, i could have barfed on cue. i didn't want to stand there too long because i just wanted to get 'er done...but when i got ...

... really understand why she had a walkie talkie in the first place and when I asked she told me it was her boss, and left it at that. Over breakfast of hearty porridge, mama explained that she volunteers as a child resuce worker. Last night she had to rescue 2 childern (6 months and 2 years) from their alcoholic ...

... PM, so we were facing the loss of daylight...again. We decided against a walk to the top, which would have required 2.5 hours, and took the cableway hoping to walk down before it got dark. Surprisingly, the cableway ride to the top made me quite nervous; being suspended in air like that. The realization that I was dangling from a little cable above a huge mountain set in and freaked me out a bit. The ride took all of 2 minutes but I was very ...

... to serve us more than the limited late night pizza menu. We still enjoyed most of 3 large pies and sent the rest home with the Gorilla for safe keeping. As if we had another choice. On the 2nd day of '08, we were treated to the spectacle of the Cape Town New Years Karnaval. Here colorfully dressed musicians and dancers roamed the downtown streets in a wild parade procession. Thousands of people gathered to watch as the troops stomped by ...

... guide jokingly pointed out a couple of things we passed on the drive back to Cape Town but we didn't see a thing. Still the weather did add a lot of atmosphere to the trip. Considering the Cape of Good Hope was originally called the Cape of Storms, its appropriate that we had gale-force winds when we were there. Today (July 12) it was another sunny day in Cape Town (the storm quickly blew past). I went to the Kristenbosch Botanical Gardens which are stunning. I was ...

... went to the townships the first couple of times as an obvious tourist, I wasn't treated disrespectfully, but I definitely felt more like an intruder. People were still gracious and the children still approached us, but when I went on the tour with Neo, because I was with him, I was even more approachable and less of an outsider because I'd been invited in by someone who lived there. He did remind me that it was because these kinds of visits are good for their ...

... book, sit back, relax and let your driver do all the spotting for you. After the plains of the Serengeti we head to the Ngorogoro crater, which again is a wildlife spectacular as the animals dont migrate and there is water there all year round. Camping on the rim of the crater we were were visited by a wandering bull elephant that night. This was spotted by a girl that just wandered out of the firelight to go to the toilet, only to look up with her headtorch and see a great big ...