We all have to start somewhere on the road to blogdom. And since I have just returned to Spain from a trip to southern Africa, what better than to test the water with that topic. Oh, and if you don't like a mix of flippant and serious, you might wish to stop right here. South Africa has always been a whacky country, politics and that amazing first-world/third-world mix aside, if you can 'aside' such things. Where else would folk wear carved watermelons on their heads to sports matches? Where would folk drive about with plastic oranges on the tip of their car aerials? Where else do you find a tiny roadside shop boasting "Solly's Hairdresser and Car Wash"? Brazilians go to the beach wearing a tanga and carrying a small towel. South Africans go as though
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