Oakwood Lodge Bed and Breakfast Durban
89 Haygarth Road Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 3610, South Africa
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Family & Friends Fun, Beach Time and Dog Walking
The main reason for my visit to South Africa is family, especially my Mother, and so this is where I am spending most of my time. Not so much sightseeing but lots of fun - swimming in the ocean, early morning walking for exercise around the racetrack with the dogs and "secret club" :-), ...
Pay and Dismay
... workable public transport and in Durban the hills are far too steep to cycle in the tropical heat that even I, taxi-abstainer of note, have sold out and bought nifty roof racks to ensure that my surfboard fits on BOTH of our cars.
There is however an unspoken menace lurking in the shadows of this petrol-slurping society. There are forces who, currently having no vehicle of their own, seek to take possession of your car ...
Olifanten, neushoorns, giraffen.. Check!
... een nachtje doorgebracht in eMpgangeni. De volgende dag was om 13u de hele auto gefixed, inclusief nieuwe band (op de noodband mochten we blijkbaar niet meer dan 50 km rijden.. wij vrolijk door een wildpark gekard.. wisten wij veel) en konden we rond 13u weer de weg op. Na een errug lange rit door overigens prachtige natuur kwamen we om half 11 weer veilig thuis aan. Avonturen avonturen dus! En voorlopig even genoeg avonturen denk ik zo.
Deze week is ...
TIA - This Is Africa!
... was ca 3 Stunden dauerte... Neue Frisur, neuer Ort, das Abenteuer kann beginnen!
Heute war ich dann schon richtig in den Townships im Einsatz und hab mit einer Sozialarbeiterin Home Visits bei diversen Leuten gemacht und wieder oft Bahnhof verstanden, da alles auf Zulu war. Jedoch wurde mir viel übersetzt und so war es eine echt interessante Erfahrung, was so die Probleme und Herausforderungen im Leben dieser Leute sind, ...
Be Easy Zambezi
... in the same tent at me. He was quite funny however, and seemed to always focus on stereotypes when talking about certain types of people around the world. He told me he used to smuggle music and things over the wall from west berlin to east berlin. at night the hostel cooked up a good chicken curry dinner and put on a movie on their large screen projector but the sound gave out after a half hour unfortunately.
The next day when i walked 2km to find ...


