St Annes Guest House Durban

I'm spending 2 more nights in Durban with a nice couple I found on couchsurfing.org. Margaret is an environmental consultant working on transportation issues for the city of Durban, and Gavin is a professional clown. They've given me a private guest room and various rides around town, which is great because public ...

... knee. Check. I did some reading up in my Lonely Planet on the areas we'd be visiting during the 8:45 long flight as well. We landed at around 5 PM Durban time and flew through customs. We were pleased to discover that we didn't need to pay for a entry VISA and that both of our bags had not ended up in the Bermuda Triangle of lost luggage.

We were met by a polite young South African named "China". Apparently ...

... in the group. I had only visited Durban once before, 17 years earlier in 1992, and I sure didn’t remember enjoying it so much as I did this time.

We enjoyed an excellent breakfast with an omelet made to order and a fresh waffle. I then went downstairs to the Cascades room to set up for class, glad that our 4th bag had been delivered to our room at 6 am with quizzes inside. I gave the first 2 quizzes for Geography 5, and most of the ...

... to accompany us, safe to say the nights were sleepless & uncomfortable with the room becoming a sauna & the mosquito's eating us alive. Our first day was spent in Gateway shopping mall, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, with hundreds of shops & restaurants there was also a climbing wall, a skate park, a wave machine to surf on, a science world, & 2 cinemas! The weather in Durban is hot all year round, even the winters so at summer time it is roasting ...

... add to the prosecution's evidence, sentencing many to emigrate for greener pastures. Difficult to argue against anyone with young kids, but I always set out to disprove the theory, though from the comfort of foreign shores. South Africa is still a big important country, and like many other emerging countries is just a bit volatile. Its economy isn't big in dollars because it's very undeveloped, but over the last century a fair chunk of the worlds minerals have been ...

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.

... are much wider than the ones on the kitchen windows. Clearly, they were after my bananas sitting on the kitchen counter. :-) I went outside and took a few pictures of them as the one female and her baby were sitting on the roof right above my flat. Thank goodness they didn't come in Sunday or yesterday when I was napping or they would have had a free for all in my kitchen. Speaking of animals, my neighbour, Bruce, has ...

... church has struggled to work through issues of prejudice and discrimination, but has made significant progress as they purposely built their church in downtown Durban over the train station. I would say about 80-85% of the people in attendance where white with the rest being either Indian or black. I noticed last Thursday when I was in training that of the deacons and elders who came for a meeting all of them were white except one ...

... sa mycket morfin som manniskor av indiskt ursprung! Att indierna nastan i dubbelt sa stor utstrackning drabbas hjartinfarkt! Det ar liksom som att ... om jabbet hemma ar en promenad pa en aeng, sa ar det har som att spela "minroej" - pang! sa gar du pa en mina i form av ovantat komplicerad soevning om du inte passar dig. Har hunnit se en del av det beryktade skottskadorna, men de flesta i ett lugnt skede - en saarig arm som maste opereras ...

... So thanks for the braii guys and see you in Scotland for the wedding! The weather wasnt that great but the beach was very nice and walked along it a couple of times. I just chilled out here and didnt go into the centre of town. (the backpackers was in a posh suburb called The Bluff) aye a know chicken baguette and all that ...