Garden Court Marine Parade Durban

... little bit and the area my grandparents live by the beach. Our guide, Dina, began by giving us this really delicious Afrikans doughnut like thing that is bread dropped into hot oil then soaked in syrup. I have realized that many of you probably don't understand what an Afrikans person is. A person who is Afrikans has descended from the Dutch colonists that settled here in South Africa many years ago ...

... tourist (well she looked so German to me) and a group of people on their cigarette break outside what appeared to be a bank I think. I really have the impression that it is really difficult for the blacks to get access to the best jobs and that the best paid jobs are occupied by the whites. You very often see a white boss with black employees but I have not yet seen the other way around. I am just trying to get an understanding as to how post-Apartheid South Africa ...

... my stuff in one of them only to realize that it had been broken into from the side making completely useless. Anyway, there was another one that I was able to use but it would have been so easy to just break into it.


There was also no internet access at that time as it was after 8pm – Great! I need to get the details for the Sani Pass Tour tomorrow but I am sure I can get that from the airport.

... With a short in the power supply I’m okay if I can just set it up and leave it. Turns out the hour of wi-fi service I contract for can easily stretch out to two or more also, if they forget to shut me down.

Then like magic the weather clears up, bright and clear (if still windy) in a matter of minutes. Things are looking up, so I get out and go check out Zulu World. Cheesy and corny (and probably even more foodstuffs) as it is, I’m ...

First vacation was kind of a shock. Even the first day when we just crossed over into the small SA border town of Lady Brand to get groceries for the Christmas feast was intense. We walked along nicely paved sidewalks lining streets with aboreal dividers to a cute cafe that serves bagels and filter coffee. Afterwards we went to SPAR - a chain grocery store. It sells almost anything you could hope to find in an American grocery store: soy products ...

Today is Wednesday and we arrived in Durban last night. We had planned to go directly to the Drakensberg Mountains but once on the bus realized there was no good way to get there without a car. Luckily, we had the number for Jackie's Beechwood Guest House in Durban. She was fantastic; she picked us up at the bus station and was so helpful in our search for ways to get to the Drakensberg. Her Guest House was beautiful and the nicest placed we have ...

... stopped getting sick. I'm normally a pretty healthy person. While I was quite sick last summer due to a medication change for a chronic condition that I have, I have been really healthy since and was beforehand, having always been physically active my entire life. In the three years that I spent travelling to Africa on a monthly and sometimes more frequent basis ('98-'01), I was only sick that one time in the Ivory ...

... the staff in the office were all white while the cleaning staff and cafe workers were all black. Everyone is encouraged to join a home group, which is similar to a bible study group but with a social element as well. She told me that of the 120 home groups, only 3 are in predominantly black and Indian neighborhoods similar to Cato Manor. She said that safety is a big problem in those areas as the home groups meet at night ...

... time soon - the women do practically everything while the men go to the city to "work" and are allowed numerous wives!! In Durban didn't do anything too extravagant - went to the beach & did a bit of shopping!! Had the pleasure of seeing our first cockroaches on our travels! Disgusting!! They were crawling the walls of our room in the hostel!

Yo bru's howz it? That's as much south african slang im gonna use on here without you lot ripping the **** out of me! If you want more let me know! After another loooooong bus trip i arrived in Durban for a few days to chill out and meet my cousin's fiance's parents for a braii. The relation is a bit distant but they were very ...