Vanessa, Niall and Charley Enjoying a Little Light Reading

Table Mountain, Cape Town

May 6th 2010
And so onto Cape Town, what a city. It is really stunning. A beautiful setting, wrapped on all sides by mountains and coast line, dominated by Table Mountain, eclectic shops and boutiques, delicious restaurants and funky bars, local red wines, and energetic chatty cape-tonian taxi drivers who cannot help but point out all the local tourist sites. It is just a buzzing vibrant city, and the perfe ... 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

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Niall and Dee McCarthy

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Having both finished our jobs at the London Stock Exchange and JP Morgan in July, we plan to spend some time back in Ireland bothering our familes in August. Then in September our adventure starts in the Middle East on a trip from Istanbul to Cairo, then on to Nairobi for voluntary work with the Jamii Bora Microfinance Institute (http://www.jamiibora.org). From there we hope to travel to South Africa via Victoria Falls. Then a flight to India for a few months before travelling through China and some of South East Asia before a flight home. Phew - all of that in 12 months.... So to keep ... full info

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