Umhlanga Beach Mews 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 ...

... on Cryws Road in Cardiff (Marc will know what I mean). So I ended up having an English breakfast, paid the bill but decided to go the loo before going. On the way to the toilets were a few freezers which is quite unusual and also a big cockroach on the floor - I think it was dead but at least they could have cleared it up to pretend it was clean!!


Anyway, back to the fact that I hardly see any white people around. The only other white people I saw were a ...

... area was not the best and neither was the hostel actually. The hostel was in what seemed to be a block of flats and as we walked up the stairs we could hear a lot of kids screaming, a little bit like a play ground – I learnt later that it was a holiday camp as it was the school holidays.


The dorm itself was kind of standard but you should have seen the state of their so called safe. I started to ...

... to see so many girls there - either in groups or with a friend.  Wonder if they're there for the game, players or mass of men game attracts. Got seats on the halfway line, unfortunately smack bang in the middle so there was no moving for beers or loo breaks.  We got our butts walloped but it was great atmosphere besides from three hicks sitting in front of us who, the two times Brumbies scored a try, shouted go home and put your shackles on.  They weren't ...

... B. a few memory cards for his camera so that he could take lots of pictures and just send me the SD disk. But, the camera had disappeared. Someone had stolen it. Such is life continually here! I am giving him my little Canon Sure Shot so he can take pictures. I always love photos from this area. Off to the airport. Back to Johannesburg and on to Durban where the ...

... this book for some time now, and it just so happened to be on the bookshelves in my flat. On Sun. morning, I walked to the Manning Road Methodist Church for service and back. After writing a paper for school, I took a taxi to the Musgrave Shopping Centre to get lunch, use the internet café, and do some shopping. Not wanting to spend more money on a taxi home, I walked all the way back ...

... It gave us the chance to do some unwinding. As we wandered through the botanical gardens (Durbans tropical climate supports beautiful, exotic vegetation) i found myself realising that i felt like a tourist for the first time, yet simultaneously i had this databank of experiences and knowledge of the place that made it very familiar. Durban will always be a special city for me, because of Cascoland and the priveledged insights the project led to.

... and I all went to a nature preserve on the grounds of the University of KwaZulu-Natal where John is getting his master's degree in music, specifically jazz, composition. We hiked up a trail to have a look out over Cato Manor. It's so lush and green from all the rain. Unfortunately, I didn't take my camera with me. We also drove by my permanent apartment. It's in a really quiet cul-de-sac with a beautiful view ...

... an afternoon snack, looking at the market, and returning to South Africa. The town we visited in Swaziland is a 'Tijuana' sort of thing minus the danger. The Hamburger Hut was our lunch spot. I got the chicken curry with rice and Aaron got the chicken curry bunny chow. Bunny chow is a bread bowl with curry in it. Instead of a bread bowl, Aaron received a hollowed out half loaf of bread. It was pretty funny. The lunch was delicious and we headed for the ...

KOOLFING! Good day to you in merry old England (and of course the Emerald Isle). This page is normally ably scribed by the intrepid adventurer, and conqueror of many peaks, Lisa Anne Carter. However as I am featuring on a small, but not insignificant part of her journey, I have been permitted to supply a forward to this, the latest update. Well its been a little while since the last entry on this illustrious diary, but then we have been faced with the combination ...