Simon's Town

A South African Holiday Season

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December 20th 2007
Happy Holidays to all of our friends and family!! Friday, December 21, 2007 Wow, it's been an amazing few weeks. So much has happened. We had a pretty crazy time looking for a new place to live. We knew that we had to move out of our Tamboerskloof apartment on the 11th of December. We started looking on the 28th of November. We rented a car, wow it was a total trip to drive on t ... read more

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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