The Vineyard Hotel Cape Town

Standing feels weird after sitting for almost 20 hours straight.
I can't imagine how the lame men felt in the New Testament... we're talking more like 20+ Years. That is a precious gift alright.

Anywho, Marisa and I were instantly welcomed by entire wall murals of World Cup excitement! This country CANNOT WAIT to host the biggest sporting event on earth next summer. Preparations are being made rapidly, and the people are ...

... Kanone, die jeden Mittag um Punkt 12 Uhr abgefeu**t wird. Heute ists nur noch reine Tradition, frueh** haben die Leute im Staedtchen damit ihre Uhren gestellt. Ach, und einen netten Ausblick ueb** den Westteil Kapstadt gibts auch noch von dort aus. Und ein sup** Ort fu** Sonnenunt**gaenge. Waehrend Sanne daraufhin ihre Faehre nach Robben Island, Nelson Mandels Gefaengnis fu** mehr**e Jahrzehnte, nahm, machte ich doch noch einen kleinen Spazi**gang an d** Wat**front entlang ...

... days we walked around town (Long Street), saw the flower stands near the main train station and down to the City's prime Atlantic coast "Waterfront" for shopping (African Masks), drinking (good beer) and some great food. The view is impressive with the Table Mountains as a backdrop.

... workers and learned how guards were rotated through regularly, so that they would not get to know and become sympathetic with prisoners. We saw an old church, a great view of Table Mountain, a shipwreck and learned about how the island had been used as a place of exile from the times of the first Dutch settlers – how they brought members of resistance forces from places like Batavia here, to keep them from interfering with colonial rule elsewhere. We heard about how the eucalyptus ...

... there are either orphaned, abandoned, or from abusive homes. Those orphaned and abandoned tend to stay there until they are in their mid-late teens, whereas they work with the abusive parents to make them better and get their children back. One building we went into was for children under five years old. ~40 kids stayed there. We went in and there were children running everywhere! It was nuts to say the least. The toddler room was a bit depressing, though ...

... Farm zu machen. In Kakamas bei Die Maas war ich dann der einzige Gast, hatte einen fuerstlichen Bungalow fuer mich allein und den herlichsten Blick der Welt auf den Oranje :-) ******************************** Hello South Africa - back again. The sun is shining, my little hired car is bigger than expected.... now up to Upington. A long drive *uuuiiiiii* So ...

... the area. The tour I booked included lunch, transport, and plenty of free wine tastings! Since there is a lot of competition between the various wineries some of the smaller ones try to create a theme to attract visitors. One place I visited was called Fairview which had a "goat tower" with one especially large bearded billy at the top of the tower. On the final day before I had to leave for Jo'berg to catch a plane to Israel I decided to climb Table Mountain. After a ...

... to the performance of the first heart transplant. They had turned the very rooms into a museum and displayed all of the newspaper clippings from every angle of the event, from the 58-year old patient himself to the story of the car wreck that killed the 25-year old heart donor and her mother. They had the recipient's original heart preserved and the donor's heart that only kept the recipient alive for eighteen days before he died of a lung infection, the ...

... East Indies including Java, Malaya and Madagascar begins 1688 Huguenot settlers arrive at the Cape from France - settle in Franschoek (corner of France) 1795 Britain annexes the Cape by agreement with Holland 1803 Cape returns to Batavian Republic (Holland) 1806 Britain re-occupies the Cape; takes the Cape by force. 1820 5000 British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth) 1834 Slavery abolished; Great Trek from the Cape Colony (Dutch) begins 1843 Natal proclaimed a British ...