Blogs from Africa - page 2687

hello, hope all is well. we arrived in sa on friday night....after a crazy 17hours of flying! insane! i dont think i have ever watched so many films! met up with georgi then headed off to our hostel. then a quiet night...i couldnt cope with much having been up 30+ hours! saturday we just chilled. attempted to make a plan...so we shopped...an i bought an sa phone! we got back...then impromtuly got picked up by drew and lu, and headed off to krugersdorp, to one of their friends 18ths! one crazy night, which ended watching the sun come up having breakfast at fontana! awesome awesome! sunday was largely spent recovering! we went (to watch not play) football and rugby, then had an amazing home cooked dinner at drews....so so grateful. i miss home cooked food so ... read more

OK 9.5 hours with 70 people on a 55 seater bus through the desert without air-conditioning, with one vomit prone very bus sick nine year old isn’t the greatest, but what do you expect for $8 AU. Yet I arrived in the Sinai protectorate of St Katherina around 8:00pm and headed for the 'Fox of the Desert' (yes that’s right Chock) Bedouin camp, where I shared a room with Jose' a Peruvian I met on the journey up. So after negotiating a deal for accommodation and dinner for two, for the grand sum of $1.20 Au per head, we stowed our gear and tucked into some traditional Bedouin food. After a short walk which encompassed the entire St Katerina town, sleep was the prelude to out 2:15 am alarm, I was heading up all 2,285 ... read more

So Marnie and I arrived safe and sound in cape town at about 9 am local time (9 hours difference for those of you in calgary). The flight was not as bad as we thought a 12+ hour flight would be. We both amanaged to get some good sleep and we fairly rested when we got off the plane. Once we got off the plane and through Customs we headed over to baggage claim where Marnie was able to get her bag and I was left with just my carry-on. My checked baggage never came out of the shoot.... Thankfully I had been able to take my hikers back pack on the flights with me, or I might have been left with nothing. I checked in with South African Air's Lost Luggage and they are currently ... read more

Almost forgot... we got Mr. Blessings a bike. He is one of the house workers mentioned a few posts back. 2 hours walking to work in the morning, 2 hours home at night. The guy needed a bike. So, off we went bike shopping. Katie very casually found out that his favorite color was green, and the first bike store we popped into had one really nice green one at the exact bottom figure of the reasonable price range we had established earlier. A pretty good one, too. No gears, so it should be really easy to maintain, and it has a dynamo-powered light on the front for safety at night. We brought it home and surprised him. He was too overwhelmed to say much, but then again, "God is a good God" was pretty much ... read more

July 16, 2007 Cape Town “” Today at 7:40, I joined Ced on his Walk for Life constitutional. It was a 5k walk around Rondebosch, the suburb where he and Sandra live. It was a crisp morning, and I attracted lots of funny looks in my stylish teddybear pj pants! (I didn't have room for exercise clothes, OK!) It was a nice walk. I do enjoy walking outside versus on a track in a gym! Once we got home, I lazed about, checking e-mails and working on my blog. I had a late breakfast, and then suddenly it was 11:00, and Ced was rather cross that I had made no effort to get started on our day. So, we got going. We had afternoon tea scheduled with an old school friend of mine at 3:00--that didn't ... read more