City Lodge - Durban -

... on the bus joined in with the shouting (not too good for the hangovers) and then the police came over and told the bus driver to drive us all to the police station.<br><br>We were outside for about 2 hours until someone had the presence of mind to check the woman's shopping bags. Quelle surprise - the purse was in there and we left. The woman was not with us though... I suspect she may be spending a little time in ...

Here I am again with some pictures for you. I will be going to Umlazi on Wednesday to stay and will meet my Zulu friends. I cant wait to see my friend Precious who I met when she was 13 and now she is 18. Having a very good time, although the weather is very weird, really hot for days, then it goes cold.<br>

... to some sort of chain but once I sat down and looked at the menu it was very much like Calcio on Cryws Road in Cardiff (Marc will know what I mean). So I ended up having an English breakfast, paid the bill but decided to go the loo before going. On the way to the toilets were a few freezers which is quite unusual and also a big cockroach on the floor - I think it was dead but at least they could have cleared it up to pretend the place was clean!!<br><br ...

... experience one week-end when Lew and Bo, my new friends, took Michael (my French travel mate who has left Europe 4 years ago and traveled/worked in Africa), Maxime (a French trainee working with Lew in a solar panel company), and me to ZUVUYA to celebrate the winter solstice...The name itself creates expectations...<br>It is a kind of community farm or eco-village in the mountains where 11 adults and their 7 children ...

... groom's family. At this point the bride and groom had both changed into traditional clothing. It's kinda hard to describe, but she wore a colorful dress with a head wrap and he wore animal hide and leather- probably what you would think an African tribal man would wear. [By the way, there are still a lot of traditional practices here- including the paying of lobola. Men are expected to pay the bride's family a gift of eleven cows in ...

It's been a long time since I've updated my blog. Please accept my apologies. My faculty advisor from UT came on March 3 for my mid-semester evaluation. I was really worried about the evaluation as I hadn't been able to complete a number of the tasks that were agreed upon before my arrival. Thankfully, Dr. Gilbert was very understanding and appreciative of my efforts thus far. Surprisingly, I received an entirely different ...

... t really afford to take a taxi all the time and it's too hot to walk long distances during the day. On Saturday, I walked back down to the Davenport area to go to the internet café, cell phone store, bank, and grocery store. I ran into Kerry again in the shopping center, and she asked me if everything worked out with meeting my friend. I also visited the Art Society of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Museum and had lunch at the café there. There was a fantastic ...

... words. We spent a while lying on the beach enjoying the warmth of the sun and kept cool by the gentle breeze. After a while we were getting hot and, even though there were still bluebottles around, we decided to join the other mad swimmers and risk the sting (thankfully we were spared that treat). It was great to be swimming in the ocean again. The sea was ...

... Finally back home now and glad to have unpacked our backpacks and be having normal baths and showers. Will keep you all updated on how we are settling into our new life here in Durbs. Thanks to all of you who kept in touch over the last few months with all your encouraging emails and news from your end of the world. Hope you all enjoyed our travelpod as much as we enjoyed doing it. All our love Just and Sal

... posh hotels, and the Indian Ocean. Once in a while, weekend tourists like me-forever hopeless at sewing-drop in for a quick alteration. But usually, his services draw in clientele of the more well-off variety. South Africa may be leading the continent in GDP per capita, but make no mistake that between rich and poor still lies an enormous gully even in a modern, cosmopolitan city like Durban. This shop is the child of his ambition. Gabriel strategised when he sought out ...