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Wish I was there

By 6000 | 6000 | May 5, 2011

It’s just a more personal form of “wish you were here”… Taken in L’Agulhas last week. If you’re willing to go bigger, you’ll see the lighthouse (as if you need proof: why would I ever lie to my loyal reader(s)?). Don’t be fooled by the blue skies – there was a howling gale blowing and [...]

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Back to (6000 miles from) civilisation…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 22, 2011

After a leisurely journey back from Agulhas (stopping briefly in Bredasdorp for food, drink and Kinder eggs for the kids) we find ourselves back in Cape Town’s leafy Southern Suburbs. Truly, I haven’t a clue what’s been happening while we were away. Something about Libya and someone getting shot in Cape Town was all I [...]

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While you were sleeping

By 6000 | 6000 | March 5, 2011

We’re down in the Southern Cape again this weekend, so I thought it wholly appropriate to share a pic I took last weekend of some ships rounding Cape Agulhas at night. I’ve seen the ships in Table Bay illuminated at night, but I just assumed that they were lit up since they were stationary and [...]

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Spray

By 6000 | 6000 | February 19, 2011

Weekends are meant for relaxation, but mine has been full of sorting out the garden, making biltong, upgrading the software on my phone, trying to stay calm despite having manic kids underneath my feet all day and enjoying enduring the worst meal ever at Spur. (Which shouldn’t surprise me, I know, but this was even [...]

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Mosque Light

By 6000 | 6000 | January 16, 2011

An amazing photo from my parents’ recent trip to Oman: It’s not a spaceship, it’s a chandelier in the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Bousher. This is the second largest chandelier in the world and is 14 (fourteen) metres tall. That’s about 8 me’s and I’m not small. (Incidentally, the world’s largest chandelier is just up [...]

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