Franklin House

30 Franklin Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7708, South Africa | Hostel

Travel Blogs from Cape Town

Robben Island

A travel blog entry by danib1985

13

... but luckily i dont really get sick from that sort of thing, when it got back it was close to half 4 so I wanted to start walking back and get some food from the supermarket for dinner...was actually more expensive or the same as getting a cheap meal at a restaurant!!! Restaurants are so cheap here you can get a good meal for a 5er. Bought pizza, garlic bread and coleslaw and went back to make it. Saw Austin, Maria's brother (American) and the Scottish lad Andrew playing cards when I got ...

Is this real life?

A travel blog entry by sarah_burkel

1

... St. Anne's. Currently, there are eleven women at the home and all but two are holding jobs. The other two have recently had children and are taking care of them. This is great news for St. Anne's. When these women are able to hold jobs for long enough but still cannot afford housing they move to a different home (provided by St. Anne's) where they can afford to live. This keeps continuing until their time at St. Anne's must run out or they are able to afford an appropriate ...

Day 1 - Arrival in Cape Town

A travel blog entry by katepettitpeace

1

... in exactly 10 days!!), but I have just gained an instant understanding as to why Table Mountain was such a highly ranked competitor.

I spent my only night in Cape Town at The Backpack – a 5 star backpackers which I was expecting to be good, but it was exceptional – good food, live music, lots of interesting people. I met some people who were staying in Cape Town volunteering in local townships. A few of them were with ...

The Other Side of Cape Town...

A travel blog entry by mrandmrsfitz

1
5

... our first term is almost over!! We had Good Friday and the Monday after Easter (tomorrow) off as public holidays, so we decided to take a weekend trip out of Cape Town into the mountain farmlands to a quaint little town called Montagu. Montagu is surrounded by both mountains and wine lands, so the activities available are an equal mix of fine dining and drinking and fresh-air fun like climbing, hiking and taking a dip in the natural hot springs. We were able to rent a ...

Signal Hill

A travel blog entry by mozi

8

... na futbalovy stadion na ktorom sa hrali Majstrovstva Sveta vo futbale v roku 2010. Zdrzali sme sa tam asi hodinku a isli sme vyzdvihnut Andrejku a Feriho ku lanovke na Stolovej hore a fijuuuu domov.
No teda, az tak fijuuu to nebolo, lebo sme zaviazli vo vecernej zapche na dialnici... :-)

Ale po zdarnom prichode domov Fero rozlozil ohen na "nasom" grile a urobil skvele steaky z rana. Andrejka a Stanka urobili salat a ja som konzumoval. Bolo to skvele!
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This hostel, located in the Plumstead area of Cape Town, is near Table Mountain, Rhodes Memorial, Sleepy Hollow Horse Riding, and Para-Taxi Tandem Paragliding.
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