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The Traveling Penguin: in vino veritas...
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). It's the truth. South African wine is fantastic! This was a happy day for everyone, especially Mini Wolfgang! It was the big wine tasting day! We never expected that we would see this kind of a kill. Lions killing buffalo, sure, if we were lucky. But a dog killing a dove? Very freaky. It was kind of grotesque, but at the same time, overwhelmingly funny. Darn, I could use some wine now ;-). Difference, but the wines here are beyond fantastic. They're s...
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The Traveling Penguin: All aboard the posh purple train of Ring of Fat doom!
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). All aboard the posh purple train of Ring of Fat doom! 02/10 – 03/10/2007. We got up quite early to get a taxi to the train station, arriving at the Premier Classe. Lounge a bit too early, so we had to wait outside, but that didn't really matter. while it seemed kind of dodgy in the area, we never really felt unsafe. And we didn't have to wait that long. Quite shortly after boarding, we were herded into the dining area, where we were given a glass of s...
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The Traveling Penguin: back to earth and reality...
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). Back to earth and reality. Urk said I would get the SA report done before the end of 2007. Didn't happen. There's only two short blurbs to go. Here's one of them. After returning to Melville, we walked to a shopping center in the area to see if we could find anything interesting, as the weather was quite nice. We bought some CDs with South African music, most notably Freshly Ground. We had the following wine with our lunch:. Deep, opaque violet. Fun P...
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The Traveling Penguin: July 2007
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). The harbinger of things to come. Um, more Madrid stuff will come later this week. Sorry I've been so slow about it.). Way back when I got my first passport ever, a friend of mine looked at the empty pages and said "this is going to get full of stamps.". Madrid - more museums. The Prado report is out there. Here are the other museums we visited while in Madrid:. We went to La Reina Sofia. Of course, one of the most famous paintings in the museum (peopl...
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The Traveling Penguin: up, up, and away!
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). Up, up, and away! Urgh got up before 4 am for a 4:15 pickup for our balloon safari. When the driver didn't show up at 4:15 (he arrived early yesterday) we were afraid that they forgot about us, our re-booking. but yay, finally, he showed up around 4:25. No big deal; South Africans have a tendency to drive a bit fast ;-). About hot air balloons in general. The balloon finally inflated and we were ready to board! The scenery. wow. People looked so small.
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The Traveling Penguin: December 2007
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). Up, up, and away! Urgh got up before 4 am for a 4:15 pickup for our balloon safari. When the driver didn't show up at 4:15 (he arrived early yesterday) we were afraid that they forgot about us, our re-booking. but yay, finally, he showed up around 4:25. No big deal; South Africans have a tendency to drive a bit fast ;-). About hot air balloons in general. The balloon finally inflated and we were ready to board! The scenery. wow. People looked so small.
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The Traveling Penguin: Melville
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). Aaaah, finally in Johannesburg, in a district called Melville. We arrived at our guesthouse, got our room and dumped our stuff, and then went out to find some lunch. The lady in charge of the guesthouse pointed out where we could find some restaurants, so we walked over there. The most interesting restaurant was a place called Nuno's Portuguese Restaurant. That was more than enough lunch for two people. and we still had a main course to eat! We spent ...
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The Traveling Penguin: "the important thing to remember when you're invited into a silverback gorilla's backyard is just who's the boss"
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). The important thing to remember when you're invited into a silverback gorilla's backyard is just who's the boss". Uh, no shit, Sherlock. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid tourists go into a natural habitat and think that human rules apply in these habitats. There are some good comments along with the article, one of them being:. Quite what provoked the normally placid silverback into stamping his authority so forcefully is uncertain.".
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The Traveling Penguin: *title replaced by incomprehensible baby babble*
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). Title replaced by incomprehensible baby babble*. We got up early so that we could get to Betty's Bay relatively early. Our backpackers' didn't serve breakfast, so we took off hoping we would find a place to get something to eat. But alas, no. Fortunately I had a package of peanuts with me, so we munched on that and drank some water. not ideal, but better than nothing. The actual penguin reserve is at a place called Stony Point Nature Reserve. We spent...
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The Traveling Penguin: July 2008
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Searching the world for anything and everything. ;-). Long time, no travel writing. Shame on me for not posting about my past travels. I have had quite a few actually, so I'll try to write something or other about these in the near future. Baggage theft at airports is a big problem. And the claim is that homeless people. Are responsible for most of the thefts. I call bullshit. What kind of airport allows just anyone to go into the baggage claim area these days anyway? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
