Benfica Hotel Cape Verde Santiago Praia

... of black volcanic cobblestones making for an interesting if somewhat jarring and noisy journey. Sunday 18/01/09 at sea wind force 8-9 sea 5-6m Monday 19/01/09 At sea but a much better day today with the wind having dropped to force 4-5 and the sea much calmer, with temperatures of 27-29 °C. We cross the equator tomorrow so there'll be an interesting ceremony I've no doubt.

Landed we have on this desert island of Sal. At the arrival those persons having a valid visa can go through a passport control and out. But those that do not have a visa-stamp in their passports have to go to a small, hot room at the left corner of the arrival hall. One meets there two CV-officers. If you have paid for your visa via a travel agency your name should be on the excel list they have in the ...

... looking them in the eye before shooting them. El Loco's technique involved a more hit and miss approach, ie I expect he shot the spear gun 20 times for each fish he caught. With that in mind it was amusing to see that they both caught the same amount of fish - 10 each. Antonio was so pleased with the days catch that he gave up 10 of the fish for us to barbeque. He was also kind enough to make a special ...

Sorry we haven¡¦t updated this sooner but it has been windy EVERYDAY since we last wrote. Our days have been very similar: wake up, go to bakery for fresh bread (only 3p a roll), pack up the kites, flag down a passing pick-up truck to take us over the ever changing desert of sand dunes to shark beach. Which incidentally I think is only called shark beach to scare off the tourists as we have even seen so much as a mini reef fish there yet ...

... we didnt catch anything. At the western end of santa maria beach is a large ship wreck where there is good surfing point break. The wave although its looks quite hollow is actually a really nice size for surfing. So all in all, cabo verde is fantastic place if you like wind surfing/kitesurfing/surfing/and eating fish! Ps dont leave your wetsuits to drip dry outside or you'll get them nicked. ours were nicked last night :-( cold kitesurfing from now on.....

... well. I was lucky and did not have anyone in front of me to recline the seat. Otherwise it gets really cramped. I have no idea how some of our fellow passengers could have sat through that flight given the size limitations. As far as how full it was from Cape Town to Atlanta I counted about 5-10 empty seats out of about 100 in the back third of the plane. Some people just ...

We were given two options - stay on the plane or go to the terminal - during refueling. I chose the terminal because that meant getting up and walking. Of course, I didn't think that there would be nothing other than a large room there. So it was standing around for 1-1/2 hours while they refueled the plane.

... This was in the time of aparttide, the bus stopped at the Black train station not the white one. No problem, just walk off in the dark to find my hotel. Next day it was off to the travel agent and book a night train to Capetown. The Blue train was $800, air conditioned 40 different wines on the menue.... The brown train compartment was $160, no air and pulled by steam engine part of the way and included morning coffee. Guess which I took?