Old fishermans cottage at Arniston

Last week in Cape Town – and thereabouts

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October 18th 2009
Sorry this last blog on our African trip is rather belated but we’ve now been back in the UK over two weeks - and been to Crete for 10 days on a cheap package deal! In that last week in Cape Town we had various vehicle related things to sort out but had time for a last little sortie down towards the southernmost point of the continent (Cape Agulhas, not Cape of Good Hope) and back through the w ... 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