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Exploring Cape Town
Blog : HAPPYTIMEBLOGBackpacking around the world HappytimeBlog | Exploring Cape TownCape Town has fast become a popular choice for travelers offering a cosmopolitan vibe against a backdrop of natural beauty, it's the perfect place to sample the uniqueness of South AfricaExploring Cape Town was originally...
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Opposition
Blog : City of Sunshine and Storms My Cape TownToday is Freedom Day in South Africa - a public holiday to commemorate the first free and non-racial elections held on 27 April 1994. As I drove past the imposing, Virginia Creeper-clad walls - now in autumnal splendour - of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in the shadow of Devil's...
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Hanepoots
Blog : City of Sunshine and Storms My Cape TownSadly it is almost the end of the summer, and therefore also nearly the end of the hanepoot table grape season here in Constantia. These heavenly grapes were brought to the Cape hundreds of years ago and it is thought that they are the "spaanse Driuven" referred to by Jan van Riebeeck...
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Early start
Blog : City of Sunshine and Storms My Cape TownToday is the Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour - the biggest cycling event in Cape Town. We passed them coming up Edinburgh Drive early this morning - 7.15 am to be exact. One side of the motorway is entirely given over to the race which goes from Cape Town city, out to Cape Point and round...
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G is for Garden
Blog : City of Sunshine and Storms My Cape TownGardens are good for the soul. This is Kirstenbosch, Cape Town's gorgeousgreen garden on theslopes of Table Mountain. All plants in the garden are indigenous to South Africa. The garden is always filled with children having fun -laughing, tumbling on the grass and mostimportantly,...
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