Locked up in maximum security prison!
Trip Start
Jun 17, 2009
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Trip End
Aug 11, 2009
Capetown,
Western Cape,
South Africa
Monday, August 10, 2009
... and some would want to throw away the key!
Well, not quite so.
Wonderful way to finish my 2 months in Africa
The planned trip to Robben Is last Tuesday was cancelled due to high winds so Tim and I left Capetown for the Garden Route. Some 2,500 + kms later we arrived back in Capetown having rebooked a trip to Robben Is for yesterday afternoon.
Wonderful way to finish my 2 months in Africa
What a wonderful way to finish this 2 month African trip hearing from our tour guide, who was a former inmate on Robben Island for 6 years, his life's story and that reflected a bit on the huge struggles that this country South Africa (and others in Africa) still has to overcome.
Nelson Mandela's cell
All aboard
Our small rental Toyota Yaris took us all the way to the world famous surfing beach at Jeffrey's Bay (surf was not up that day when we got there) along the picturesque N2 Garden Route and mainly back along the N62 passing by kilometres of wineyards. No we were not into wine tasting or else I would never make it back....
Yes, will try and fill you in on my impressions of the garden route and the wineyards later.
Must close as my short 2 hour flight from Capetown to Johannesburg is about to leave.
Coal powered station from J'berg airport
Will start my final blog in that
Tim on board this flight back to London
airport's British Airways lounge (courtesy of my brother being a BA frequent flyers member) before a 13+ hour flight to Sydney, a 4 hour wait there before the final 3 or so hour flight back to Auckland arriving at Tuesday midnight
Last flight back to New Zealand
... and guess who is going straight to work Wednesday am!
