The West way down approximately 1000 road miles further.
Our plane took off on time from Cape Town International Airport early Saturday morning on the 28th of February and approximately after five thirty UK time we touched down at London’s Heathrow airport.
Our land rover left the following Friday from the port of Cape town in a container (high cube), Kindly organised by Hemisphere Freight and Peter Meihuizen from Meihuizen International. We are very grateful for their support through out and also that of MSC. The Land rover duley arrived at the Port of Felixstowe 19 days later (Wednesday 25th March). After a routine scanning it was released by Customs on Friday 27th March 2009.
We are all extremely appreciative for all the support from companies and individuals that contributed to our fundraising efforts for WaterAid. We will continue fundraising through out the Summer and Autumn when we hope to culminate every ones efforts at a Two Trips Ball.
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( 2.9 / 385 )We tried many a good restaurant while in Cape Town, and for an Englishman you do appear spoilt for choice. My top five include the following.
The Tank
Cape Quarter, De Waterkant Street, Cape Town 8001, South Africa - 021 419 0007. This is great if you enjoy Sashimi or Sushi, but in the complex of the Cape Quarters there is a good choice of restaurants. Historically the Cape Quarters I am told used to be where slaves were sold many years ago.
The Headquarters Restaurant, a very interesting place and the best steak in town. No Menu because all they do is Sirloin Steak, rare medium or well done. The Headquarters restaurant is part of a bigger complex, The Cape Heritage Hotel has to offer. The Caveau Deli and Resturant, Simply Asia Restaurant, Africa Café and the Savoy Cabbage Restaurant.
92 Bree Street
Heritage Square
Shortmarket Street
Cape Town
Tel: 021 424 8154
In Long Street an Old School Friend of Charlie’s, runs a Tapas bar called The Fork. Ed Saunders has created with his partner a friendly restaurant providing great food at sensible prices.
Kennedys Cigar Lounge and Restaurant, still offers great atmosphere. Downstairs the Dubliner @ Kennedys offers great live pub music during the week and Jazz on Sunday evening.
The Farm Stall just south of Napier is a quaint and charming place to stop off at if you want to try some good old fashioned quality food on your way down to L`Agulhas.
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Struisbaai has a population of 1200 and L'Agulhas a population of 600, this weekend they expect 30 to 50,000 visitors at the Yellow fish Festival. we took a look earlier this week, at the most southern point of Africa in L'Agulhas where the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans meet.
Hemisphere Freight organised the return of the land rover from Cape Town through Meihuizen International.
This Morning I met Peter Meihuizen from Meihuizen International and his colleague Shehanial Jacaobs who will be dealing with Customs before exporting the vehicle.
Peter Meihuizen gave me an hour of his time this morning and shared some interesting information. The indigenous people of Cape Town the Hottentots’ were nearly completely wiped out in the mid 19th century by Tuberculosis and the remaining blacks are now virtually all Xhosa from the Eastern Cape. There are a few thousand San from Namibia in the Western Cape as well.
To catch up on the Angolan Oil situation, the biggest problem the exporters are experiencing in Cabinda is the shallow draft, along the coast, of only about three point five to four metres. This does restrict heavy loading of vessels’. 70 % of the oil from Cabinda appears to be going through Chevron Oil to the States and the balance to Europe through BP.
The Township area of Cape Town still cover a vast area but this has been reducing in recent times.
This Weather Spider wouldn’t sit still for the Camera and ended up a little worse for off…
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Schalk Burger runs a mainly Land Rover garage, specialising in service, maintenance and repair work on Land Rovers and other 4 X 4 vehicles. We called in for a gear box top up, just under a litre of ep 90, plus the labour, he charged us an astonishing 22 rand. With 14.6 rand to the pound at the moment this represented reasonable value. A good recommendation for any other over Landers. Address to follow…
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( 2.9 / 236 )At the Waterfront
Here at last...
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