Kelly at the Waterfront!

Rain, Penguins & Rand

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May 20th 2006
Afternoon from Cape Town..... Just a quick update on what we've been doing since we left Greece, it's Kelly typing again, as Ju is trying to upload about a hundred photo's on a pc next to me, and it's taking ages. I can't believe how many thousands of miles we now are from home! We left Gatwick on the 10.5 hr flight to Joburg, then got a connection to Cape Town which took another 2 hrs, so w ... 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