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Cold Comfort in Cape Town

July 26th 2007
Fawlty Towers After a very slow start, we made our journey to Cape Town, clutching plastic bags. We dropped Gav off at his digs and we had booked a room a couple of streets away in Green Point at some flats suspciously named Fawlty Towers! We pulled up at a dilapidated apartment block, complete with a huge LED display advertising room rates, and were disappointed but hardly surprised it ... read more
Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town

South African Flag 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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