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last bit of the road trip

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June 25th 2009
for once i think this might be a quick blog... coz it was 6 weeks ago nearly! oops. so we went to chinsta west, stopping off in gragamstown for lunch... which was v v african, no white people and nowhere to eat except kfc! missed dinner in buckeneers and played sopious amounts of drinking games instead! hurrah! and as i said before, the breakfast was great! id like to say the drive to coffee ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Eastern Cape » Coffee Bay

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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