Parade Hotel Durban

... cramped spaces and bags on laps, as well as a welcome glut of snack and toilet stops.<br><br>So we are now in Durban in another lovely guest house - where we plan to take in the sights, eat bunny chow (hollowed out loaves of bread filled with stew) and drink several martinis in the local bar's happy hour. Oh, and we are also picking up a car (before the martinis!) which we can't wait for!<br><br>A&amp;Lx<br><br><br>

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>

... between two posts on the beach so it is kind of dumb. I only went in for like 10 minutes probably and only up to my waist. The water wasn't really cold but it wasn't really warm either. At the time Britni and I didn't feel too much like swimming so we went back to our towels where we proceeded to fall asleep (not on purpose) and didn't wake up until it was time to go an hour and a half later. Now our first thought and fear before we laid down was that if we fell ...

... have 8 MONTHS to go - 8 CAMPING months! MM: well, ok, ok, I agree....(tough SA chick)....nothing like a 'Wassertaufe' to start us off ...and with that we headed for the Bontebok park in the pouring rain and started the fire thanks to the trusty sunumbrella shielding it from sure extinguishing. No complaints were heard as we sliced succulent fillet and washed it down with some 2004 Shiraz. No harm done in still enjoying the good life whilst we can.

... use to wash. This morning while she was taking a "bath" she heated up water in the kitchen, which I used to make tea. Then she came and poured it in a bucket and told me that it was for my bath... so opps! Haha, anyway I can take a shower sometimes in the house/school where we have class everyday, but will be a little dirtier than usual while I am here- all part of the adventure!

... church to see U2 in 3-D one Fri. evening as she needed an even number of males and females. I've never seen U2 in concert, but the movie, made of footage from several concerts in South America, was spectacular. I completely offended them after the movie though when I mentioned that I have a bumper sticker with the same "COEXIST" (with the symbols of Islam forming the C, Judaism the X, and Christianity the T) motto that ...

... could do any sightseeing we needed to change the return date of our tickets, and had believed that there was a BA office in Durban, there wasn't so we spent pretty much the whole day while BA mucked us about. First telling us we couldn't change the tickets, and then yes we could but it seems they had cancelled our original reservation, due to a no show on our leg from Jo'burg to ...

... s the bus or another mini bus taxi from there to Durban. By a stroke of luck I was chatting to a couple of girls over dinner last night who'd hired a car and were driving back to Durban in the afternoon and offered me a lift - hoorah!! They also offered to drop Roxanne to the hospice in Pinetown where she was starting her month long volunteer work with AIDs patients. Pinetown looks pretty rough ...

... catch anything. Morning of the 14 We wake up and everything is perfect. I am excited, ive got the bad day behind me and know what to expect and am ready to get fishing. We get to the beach even earlier this time and everything is absolutely perfect, the surf is down, the water is blue and the air is still. But right as we were getting ready to lauch a stiff wind from the southwest came out of no where, a southwest wind is impossible to paddle against and ...

On my second day in Hogsback, I hiked with an interesting American woman to some waterfalls in the Mountains. She was a semi-retired lawyer at age 52, often travelling as she had written the first adventure travel book for African-Americans and has been on travel radio & TV shows. Driving back to the southern coast, I headed to the so-called "Wild Coast" of South Africa. This is the Transkei region which is the under-developed, poorest state of South Africa ...