The Commodore V & A Waterfront Hotel Cape Town

... br>Shopping very good and the girls were out all arvo stimulating the local economy. The area we're in is a bit like the Rocks area of Sydney or the Bay area of San Fransisco with obviously a distinct colonial African character. Very pleasant.<br>Booked into a restaurant in the piazza at 7.30 so I'm being giving the hurry up as there is evidently more entertainment planned with some classy fashion parade and funky music, so i better go and tidy up.<br>

... engineering major at Princeton. "What the hell is he doing in Cape Town?" you may ask. Well, he is doing a semester abroad at the University of Cape Town, which is the most reputable academic institution on the entire continent. As I was having breakfast at a coffee house called Cocoa Wah Wah near Selcuk's, I heard Alex honking at me in his rental Opel Corsa. We drove to the township (a.k.a. ghetto) where he taught. Although the thousand of metal ...

I have just returned from a few days in the Cederburg Mountains which is a wilderness area 240 kilometres North of Cape Town on the way to Namibia. It is an area I have always wanted to visit as it is renowned for the rock art left by the San people. So equipped with hire car - more of this later - I set of on the 21/2 hour drive to the small town of Clanwilliam where I had booked a stay at the Bloomenberg Guest House. The drive was easy and uneventful ...

I thought Chicago was supposed to be the windy city but I think Cape Town could challenge for the title. On arrival the cable car to table Mountain was closed and my boat trip to Robben Island was cancelled because of the high seas. So with 2 of the major tourist attractions closed we decided to do a wine tasting tour instead....it's a hard life. 4 wineries and 40 different wines later it is safe to say we were in the mood to extend our tasting trip.So with a ...

... for a couple years now and I've tried a few different things to make it better including acupuncture but nothing really helped so I figured I'd give this guy a go. Healers here cannot just decide to be healers, they have to be the decendants of healers. So I walked up to his little reception area, I could barely see him. After he sold a lotto ticket to someone (hey why not?) I told him my issue and he gave me a bottle of some concoction that he said was made of plants and stone ...

Well as the "fun" travel portion of my trip has come upon me I've grown less interested in writing updates and more interested in having, well, fun :) I've also had far more time to reflect on ALL that has happened here, while I've been away from work. Being in such unique and beautiful places has left me plenty of time to process all that has been on my mind, what I've seen, done and felt. I'm now ...

... and it was pretty cool to be on the Cape of Good Hope of sailing fame. After orientation, we had an entire week off to do whatever we pleased. Many in our group rented cars and took trips, but I decided to stay around Cape Town and explore a little bit. I got to see the aquarium, Victoria and Albert Waterfront, a local market called Green Point Market where locals sell crafts and art, and a small town about 30 minutes out of Cape Town called ...

Hello All, I am in Cape Town now finishing up the last of Africa. It is really cool here and I can not wait to come back here for the World Cup in 2010. Today we wandered around town and tomorrow we are driving around the countryside to do some winetasting and then heading down to the point to see what the tip of Africa looks like. After that Danielle is off to Southeast Asia and I am off the London. Greg :-)

... are the sirens, i followed the call. The were signing in english but when the music stopped the whole service was in Afrikans, i got up and left and made my way to the Presbyterian church, it had a woman pastor, i stayed. I then go back to the hostel decide to rent a bicycle and ride a good ways out of town to a nice winery, have myself a nice lunch and do some wine tasting. You will see pictures of what i deemed very poor planning.

... dscn3930.jpg] We went to Robben Island, and as Ian and I discussed it a lot (and quite frankly, he stole what I was going to say) I'm going to quote from his last email. If you're on both our lists, you know the drill...We went to Robben Island, the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years. The tour was interesting though I was a little disappointed with the outcome. We could see the whole facility, grounds and learn a little about the history of the place but in ...