BVM AND GIUSEPPE

WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS?

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December 26th 2007
WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS? We spent Christmas day at the beach. South Africans apparently do that. In Strand large apartment buildings, tall office blocks, and low decaying vintage seaside businesses line the shore along a boulevard. On Christmas day it looked as if the United Nations had sent all their delegates to Coney Island. Only, of course, we were in South Africa. I have never ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape

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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