Tag: Cape Town
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Sunday 21 January 2018. Highlights: Cape Town Airport Lounge, Business Class Flight to Johannesburg The trip is over and it was time to start the long trip back home. My flight wasn’t until 1.25 pm and checkout from my room was at 10 am. I took advantage of staying in a room with both a…
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Airline: Comair (Part of British Airways) Plane: Boeing 737-800 Gate: A8 Seat: 2A (Club / Business Class window seat) Pushback: 13.25 (Scheduled 13.25) / Takeoff: 13.40 Arrived: 15.21 (Scheduled 15.25) / At Gate: 15.25 Duration: 2 hours Length: 790 miles / 1,272 kms Summary: A very good short domestic flight, good soft product.
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When visited: January 2018 Time of day: Lunch (11.05 to 12.35) Rating: 4 / 5
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Saturday 20 January 2018. Photos. Highlights: Curio shopping, Ethiopian cuisine With my upgraded room come an upgraded buffet breakfast at the hostel meaning I was eating in a different spot then the rest of the group. I decided to show off one of my tour t-shirts that I got yesterday which got noticed by people…
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Friday 19 January 2018. Photos. Highlights: Cape Town Landscape, Township Tour, Farewell dinner The last drive day in the truck and the last full day of the Great African Expedition tour (57 days) that started on 25 November some 56 days ago. It was with mixed feelings I backed my bag and walked down at 6.10…
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Sunday 23 April 2006 Highlights: Accommodation upgrade, almost missing my flight out of South Africa The final day in South Africa turned out to be very rainy so a good day to leave. I stayed in different accommodation last night as Drifters had overbooked and I got a better place.
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Saturday 22 April 2006 Highlights: Visiting Robben Island, our guides personal stories and insight, tasty Springbok Today marked the 2nd last day in South Africa and the first since the tour ended. I ended up going to Robben Island during the day with my new friend from Belgium Inge. The ride over was very…
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Friday 21 April 2006 Highlights: Crime in Cape Town, Final dinner, the amazing Karoo Lamb We finished the tour with some wine tasting, I got extras from my table but the other group’ seemed very happy with the offerings 🙂 After the tour had officially ended we arranged for one final dinner together and I…
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Thursday 20 April 2006 Highlights: Hout Bay, African Penguins, Table Top Mountain On our last full day together we headed off to Hout Bay and ended up walking up to a lighthouse that was so high it didn’t really save many ships (I think 20 odd crashed nearby). Jacko & Marjia both run down…
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Wednesday 19 April 2006 Highlights: Sand Dune fun, Cape Point (meeting point for Indian & Atlantic Oceans) We started the day with lots of fun on the sand dunes in De Hoop Nature Reserve. This only proved that some of us are still big kids. I even run down the dunes at one…
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