Royal Palm Durban

... station for wasting police time.<br><br>Aside from that (and a LOT more shouting as the people on the bus discussed the events) the journey to Swaziland was pretty and uneventful.<br><br>We stayed the night in a lovely guest house called Swaziland Backpackers (which had a Great Dane and a Great Dane puppy) and then took the Baz Bus to Durban. The trip was long but was notable for a total lack of shouting, unnecessary ...

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>

... only cost us about 8 euro each which probably would of been about 50 euro back in Ireland. Groggy from dinner and our late one the night before we were all tucked up in bed by 10pm.<br> Monday was a bit of an 'admin' day where we did very little except write some blogs, do some food shopping and just laze around. That night we went to the cinema for the long awaited new Harry Potter film. Rachel was very excited and I'm not gonna lie to you, I was too. It was ridiculously awesome ...

Today we just took it easy at the van Belkum's. We held a LifeNets Trustee meeting in the morning followed up with a brai...a barbecue. LifeNets Southern Africa has been in existence since 2001. You can read about it here. I am a member of the trustees here, but, obviously, am always absent from meetings. So, it was a treat to be ...

... We then hopped back into the car and headed for Cape Town. It rained the entire day until we crossed the mountains to descend into Cape Town. Cape Town lies on a small peninsula at the southern tip of Africa which juts into the Atlantic Ocean. Cape Town rests at the foot of Table Mountain. For four centuries, Table Mountain at 3,566 ft above sea level has been a welcome landmark ...

I write this well after the event, so for more information on the project itself, check www.cascoland.com. Meeting all the other Casco artists (mostly Dutch and most had worked on previous cascoland projects so knew one another) I sensed what an interesting time was ahead ... didn't sense what a testing time it would also be, not least to remember everyone's name and how to pronounce it. With about 20 of us 'internationals' taking over a ...

I sprang out of bed at 7am, all refreshed from a good night sleep. There is only one important thing on the agenda today... Clean underwear. Its been a number of days since I ran out of clean clothes and things are starting to get a bit desperate. So I headed down the block to the laundry place recommended by the hostel owner. Within two hours, I was back to being my clean and tidy "urban boy" self. I even used fabric softener in my ...

Today we were transferred (via the back of a pick-up truck) to Underburg, where we were then transferred (via the front 1 seat of a parcel truck) to Pitermaritzburg. There we waited for 4 hours to get the bus to Durban. The guy said 'You shouldn't wear scarves - it makes you look like tourists'. Great. Everywhere you go people continuously say how unsafe it is and stuff. It makes you so paranoid it's unbeliveable and part of the problem when it comes to the country's racist issues ...

... else seem really really wonderful!) We trekked for a couple days and saw some crazy birds and animals. Unfortunately we came to a huge canyon (it felt very Lewis and Clark-like with our ****** map) and decided we must turn around and head back to the pass the next day. We got up early and luckily we caught a taxi down the pass and were in quite sleepy Underburg, South Africa that same night. It felt weird coming back into South Africa. The tension in this country is ...

... 2nd December After the night before, nothing can be said about today! To top off the hangover feeling, the electricity went for 3 or 4 hours, we had to get a Thai food takeaway, which wasn't the greatest. Played cards by candlelight before going to bed. Sunburn still feckin sore! 3rd December Went for a walk in downtown Durban today. Twas Cool! The sheer amount of people was amazing! Went through ...