Feeding time

Cape Town, Stellenbosch and along the Garden Route

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December 12th 2006
It all happened a long time ago now, but the final few chapters of the blog need to be finished. The last weeks of the trip were amongst the most memorable of our time away so we must do them justice with a decent blog entry. Apologies if the details are a bit lacking. We moved on from Johannesburg to Cape Town on 20th November and picked up a hire car on arrival at the airport so that we coul ... 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