Brownies!

Brown Ease and Good Hope

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March 6th 2006
We can't believe we've already been in South Africa for 3 weeks. It's flown by, thanks to what we like to call "Brown Ease". But let's rewind. Last blog many of you read about our parking ticket and said to yourselves "it's just Nick raving again"....but Nick was vindicated the very next day, when we awoke to find that the car next to ours had been broken into. And so we'd like to send a gr ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town

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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