Blogs from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa - page 8

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! That’s about where I start my explanation of last night. Wow, holly cow, amazing! What a night, what an experience!!!! I will remember last night until I am old and senile. It started out a grey day so Bri and I hit of the shops for a bit and then she headed out to do a bit of work whilst I finished writing the blogs. A work friend of hers, Leah, showed up from Joburg for the game and we got all dressed in red a gold and organized a ride down to the game. We got dropped off by the owners of Bri’s guest house and started the long walk into the stadium. Along the way we saw all sorts of interesting and strange people, German and Spanish fans alike, with a few BafanaBafana ... read more

Geo: -29.853, 31.0164Today was about two very difference awesome experiences.Matt and Dave were bound for the beach.Rather than that, i decided to be dropped off at uShaka Marine World in Durban; renowned for having one of the biggest aquariums in the world. The Park also includes a 'Wet n Wild' and four shows (Shark feeding, Penguin Feeding, Dolphin Show and Seal Show.The aquarium itself was incredible. The theme of it was the design of a sunken cruise liner. The interior was all rustic, with different liner-rooms, unbalanced floors and the like. Amongst all this there were windows, tanks and rooms full of several types of fish.The shark feeding was impressive, along with a nice touch-pool. The size of the aquarium was huge and provided a good couple hours viewing.The penguin feeding wasnt thrilling, but awesome to ... read more

We arrived in Jo-burg early on Wednesday hoping that things would go smoothly so we could get to Pretoria and the third game versus Algeria on time. For once... They did. We picked up our third Chevy Aveo of the trip (this one was silver and named the Silver Bullet unlike the White Bullet and the Blue Bullet, the names I gave the first two Aveos) and headed North to the capital. I will say while not having any power at all (it felt like a 600 cc dirtbike engine when you hit the gas) the Aveos treated us well and will be remembered. Having boycotted GPS altogether and frankly, from being exhausted from traveling non-stop for over 3 weeks - the trip to our hotel in Pretoria was an adventure. I have no clue how, ... read more

Early start off to Bloemfontein for England Germany game. It is easy to see why Tolkien based Mordor on this city, it's dire. We meet the Aussie boys who have booked us into a hotel as all camp sites are full. As Australia didn't make it through their group, they now have been allocated Germany tickets so will be as the same matches as us, handy! It's walking distance to the waterfront so off we go for prematch warm up. Unfortunately Bloemfontein didn't seem to know we were coming as all pubs on the waterfront ran out of beer 90mins before the game. We make our way to the stadium which luckily hasn't run out, yet... Disatrous game with a disallowed goal for England, morale drops and we lose :( Even worse I lost my phone ... read more

OK - first up - I have been less lazy this time and culled some shower stories - apart from the fact that most have been freezing, as a matter of fact only one has been hot start to finish. Enjoy! Oh - and I tried to upload the video again and it doesn't work for me, so hopefully it might work once it is saved so sorry if it doesn't work again, it is the only way I could even hint at the excitement of the locals at the FanFest. Saturday, 12 June 2010 Fanatics HQ, Durban Up just after 7.30am and quick shower and then brekky with Kelly. Then down to laptop, downloading heaps of photos and video from yesterday and get ready for internet around 10am - lucky someone said yesterday about a ... read more