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Cape Town weekend

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November 8th 2009
Saturday night in Cape Town - we decided we wanted to eat some of the local Cape Malay food. Our friendly hotel staff tracked down a restaurant at the Victoria and Alfred waterfront and put us in a cab to get there. The V&A is a spectacular waterfront development of shops, bars and restaurants, very smart and crowded on a Saturday evening. Most of the other streets in the centre seemed remarkably ... 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