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Talking Turtle, and Breaking and Entering

January 5th 2008
We had tried turtle watching on a previous holiday in Sri Lanka, and been unsuccessful - we managed to pick the first night of the turtle watching season when there were no turtles. It was a nice beach, and the stars were pretty, but that wasn't really the point. So we thought we'd give it another go in South Africa, with a company that said they could almost guarantee a sighting. And we came ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Eastern Cape

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

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Colin Leckey

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I am the best selling (ahem) author of "Dots on the Map", the tale of my journey around the Faroes, Liechtenstein, San Marino, the Vatican City, Monaco, Andorra and Gibraltar. Buy it through Amazon and all well known retail outlets... I am otherwise a lawyer and live in south east London with my lovely wife Gemma. I've signed up to Travel Blog to write about a forthcoming trip to southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland. Read all about it here...... full info

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