Us at Boulders Beach

Cape Of No Hope

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April 22nd 2009
Day 2 (Wednesday 22-Apr-09, JRJ) Woke up at 8:15 refreshed after a great nights sleep to the news that the Liverpool - Arsenal score was 4 - 4! Fan-fricken-tastic! Not much to do in Capetown - so decided to hire a car which was only £15 a day. I went to the car hire place to collect our little shitty 1.1 Corsa, came back to hostel for Nat and off we went to explore the Cape Peninsula. On th ... read more

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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