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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: November 2007
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Thursday, November 29, 2007. Nov 19 - 29: Back in the USA and signing off (for a while)! Still Crazy after 43 years. Friday, November 23, 2007. Wednesday Nov. 14th – Sunday Nov.18th (Port Elizabeth and Homeward Bound). Secretary to Wally’s dad, Abe Shear, or “old man Shear” as Alison called him, at the law firm Shear and Shear. Wally, then “young Mr. Shear”, who is now 72, told us his dad died at 64! Saturday morning I went for a final walk along the ...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: Nov.8th – Nov.11 th – Swellendam – Cape Town
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Wednesday, November 14, 2007. Nov8th – Nov.11 th – Swellendam – Cape Town. Posted in Sedgefield on route to Port Elizabeth from Cape Town). Drove through Paarl and on to Franschhoek, this time tasting wine at Rickety Bridge, Moreson and finally ending up at Boschendaal where we had a five course buffet lunch and of course, a nice bottle of wine. The weather, setting,. Atmosphere, company and the food all cooperated in making it a perfect afternoon....
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: July 2007
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The first Post, Wednesday July 25, 5 weeks to go! Melanie has decided that we should have a "Blog" while we are in South Africa so that we can stay in touch. I guess I'm going to have to take my laptop after all! Melanie was so keen, she even started a blog for us so I guess I had better start finding out how it all wo. I can assure you all that David and Rachel invited us to join them, we didn't just invite ourselves! We can...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: Sunday Nov.11th – Tuesday Nov. 13th - Cape Town
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Friday, November 16, 2007. Sunday Nov.11th – Tuesday Nov. 13th - Cape Town. Leave the apartment, the road had re-opened to traffic and we made our way to Hout Bay to meet up with Austin and Pat Lewis’ two “little girls”, Alison and Helen, who are now 43 and 40 respectively. We have not seen them for over 25 years. They are both married with children and we had a braai at Helen’s home. In addition, Rob and Jen. Coast” is entirely different. W...It is t...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: Saturday Nov.3rd – Wednesday Nov. 7th (PE – Swellendam)
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Thursday, November 8, 2007. Saturday Nov.3rd – Wednesday Nov. 7th (PE – Swellendam). In the last posting I mentioned a task I had asked Melanie and Clare to undertake and I will try and tell this story as concisely as possible. The “famous” doors at 9 Maureen Circle (see Nov. 4th post) were from an old building in Port Elizabeth Market Square called the Richardson Building. They had beautiful brass. Years They lived in Port Elizabeth until 2001, when ...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: Monday Oct. 29th – Friday Nov. 2nd : East London and Graaff Reinet
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Sunday, November 4, 2007. Monday Oct. 29th – Friday Nov. 2nd : East London and Graaff Reinet. Cruising to an easy victory and we would have left to post the blog had it been ready, assuming the cricket result was a foregone conclusion. Fortunately, the blog wasn’t ready so we were still working on it when SA took a couple of quick wickets and then Pakistan totally collapsed and amazingly SA won the match and. Williams Town, Alice, Fort Beaufort, Adela...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: October 2007
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Monday, October 29, 2007. Thursday Oct 25th – Sunday Oct 28th – Mazeppa Bay. Firstly I have to report up front, while we have had a wonderful time over the last four days and took lots of “fishing” photographs, there are no photographs of an actual fish! We arrived at Mazeppa Bay early afternoon Thursday after a 160K drive from East London via Butterworth, of which the last 60K is all on dirt roads and not particularly well graded – a bone. Then with ...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: August 2007
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Wednesday, August 29, 2007. Wednesday, August 29th - On our way! Anyway, as we knew we were going to be here for a good seven hours, we decided I would take this opportunity to post! We had 14 people attend the braai and a good time was had by all. Unbeknown even to me, Clare and Josh had ordered an inscribed "trophy" in. Anticipation of Alison reaching the 3,000. And Clare presented the trophy to her mom! Is getting married on Saturday, Sept. 8th...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: Wednesday Nov. 14th – Sunday Nov.18th (Port Elizabeth and Homeward Bound)
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Friday, November 23, 2007. Wednesday Nov. 14th – Sunday Nov.18th (Port Elizabeth and Homeward Bound). On Thursday we moved back to the flat at Christian Meyer’s home close to the beachfront and in the evening we went to dinner at Brian and Gail Rainbow’s home at Kings Crest townhouses right across the road. Brian also invited Wally and Sheila Shear who live in the same complex. Alison’s first job in Port Elizabeth in 1968 was. One of the suitcases had...
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007: September 2007
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SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELS 2007. September - November 2007. Sunday, September 30, 2007. Thursday, Sept. 20th-21st. Somerset West to (and at) “The Retreat at Groenfontein”. Posted in Port Elizabeth (our old home town) on Sept. 30th. A very annoying “feature” of all the roads we are traveling in SA is how many of them. We encountered one of these after leaving Barrydale, which, in fairness is not a National Road. An excellent new feature of The Retreat is the fact that that Grant has gone out into the. Surroundi...