A Day in the Capital 12

Union Buildings

March 8th 2012
You might remember a couple of entries previously that I mentioned how my flight to Cape Town had been cancelled by the airline. It's funny how things work out. When I first found out about the flight suspensions, I was pretty annoyed. I think anyone would be. But the day that my plane should have taken off was the day that I was so ill that I needed to be rushed to hospital. If I had had to n ... 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

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Emma Kendall

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I'm a 20-something, stuck in a rut, small town girl who has been afflicted with something that keeps me awake at night and makes it difficult to focus on the mundane, and which occasionally sees me breaking into a silly smile at inappropriate moments as I imagine myself stepping out of my comfortably routine life and into a world where I can find who I really am through new experiences and memories to last a lifetime. I believe they call it wanderlust. My travels will begin in January 2012, when I set off for Africa with a Lonely Planet guidebook as my sole companion. I don't claim to be a ... full info

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