Entry 6: Have Wheels. Will Travel (South African Road Trip) November 8th 2007 After checking out of our hostel and picking up our hire car, we headed down to the V&A Waterfront where we had some lunch and bought a pair of binoculars which we hoped would come in handy for our rhino hunt. So far, although probably eight times larger than a leopard they’d proved surprisingly more harder to find.
Soon we were on our way and heading east on the N2 in the first of many vehicles ... read more
Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Mossel Bay After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more
As we closed the door to the ambulance station, our shift came to a somewhat anticlimactic end. No big send off, no tearful farewells, in fact, no bugger all. But that was how we’d wanted it, choosing not to have a leaving party because, lets face it, we weren’t really leaving. However, this would be the last time we would see our place of work for a whole year. Now, I’m acutely aware of just how many people would love to be in this position, but just closing the door to an empty station, which like most places of work had become our second home, wasn’t how we’d pictured it. With nob... full info