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Travel Blogs from Cape Town
Bye to Greg & Michelle for Safari Pre-Departure
... the first flights we bought. It seems that my multi-trip insurance with Intasure might be able to help us out. We’ll save this headache for when our safari is over.
While Erik was banging his head against the desk doing this, I spent the morning paying Joanna and verifying that payment from guests was received. Last minute emails were flying all over the place, trying to make sure that all of my ducks are in a row for handing over to ...
A Very Special Day with Joep
... tomatoes, and garlic emulsion; this was served with a Sauvignon Blanc. After that we had cape buffalo meatballs, Gnocchi with parmesan cream and fennel. Wine served was a lovely Pinotage. Up next was the confit of duck with pomme puree, with lentils and various other beans; wine was Hidden Valley Secret. Our dessert was a hazelnut praline soufflé, Tonka bean ...
DAY THREE
... in until we get onto the cable car.
A note on speaking a foreign language with children: They have no patience for non-native speakers and sometimes see incompetence as an affront to everything they believe about the world. Their world is one where the languages they speak natively are of the utmost importance. Encountering someone who doesn’t speak very much of their language or perhaps none at all is akin to being learning that Santa Claus or the Easter ...
Exploring Cape Town and Beyond
... harvested and now all stubble and straw bales. We stopped in Tulbach for some afternoon tea and scrummy lemon meringue. Tulbagh was the epicenter of an earthquake in September 1969 ( Gill and Walter both remember feeling it in Cape Town)
The beautiful old traditional Cape buildings were mostly destroyed ,there was significant damage to property and nine people died. However the devastation resulted in a ...
First Stop - Cape Town
... glasses! The wine was of course all from the Boschendal Winery and we had a fair selection! Our picnic food was brought over to our table in large hampers by a waiter - and very delicious it was too!
On our journey back we passed through several more famous wine growing areas and shortly before reaching Cape Town we drove by a huge township at Kylitshia where hundreds of corrugated tin shacks stretch far into the distance. Rangy dogs patrol ...