Cape of Good Hope
How could we not make a day trip to the Cape? After all this town is named for it. The Cape of good hope is basically just a rock formation along the long peninsula to the South of Cape Town. While many, including me, think that it is the Southern tip of Africa, it is […] Read More
Shopping less
After a quick stroll through the beautiful Company Gardens, a park in the heart of Cape town, we went to the V&A Waterfront. It’s a newly re-developed area around the two basis of Cape Town’s harbor, named after Queen Victoria and her second son, Alfred. Today it houses a number of restaurant, bars, markets and, […] Read More
Holiday, celebration
Everyone who is working might slap me for that comment: but I’m in need of a holiday. Traveling for nearly 15 months now has taken its toll. Sven’s arrival is really perfectly timed. He’s been working like mad in the past months in a new job, had been sick in the past weeks, and is […] Read More
Cape Town Boys vs. West End Girls
Aaaaand…. here we go, Sven has arrived and I have moved into total luxury. A nice 2 bedroom apartment in Tamboerskloof, a fancy Cape Town neighborhood at the foot of the Lion’s Head, including a balcony with a view over town. It’s something I could NEVER afford on my by now dwindling budget. We first went […] Read More
(Nearly) robbed
Everybody warned me, but I had to defy it and walk home at night…. Most nights when I went out I left my phone at home, had no valuables than the Rand I wanted to spend, and my ID card… So in case that someone would rob me I would give them the cash, and […] Read More
Connecting Cape Town
Connecting with people in Cape Town has been relatively easy and smooth. Maybe it’s the city, maybe I am also just better at it than in the start of my journey. During the day I had met up with Kurt, a graphic designer who gave me a nice walking tour of Long Street and the […] Read More
Sunset on Table Mountain
Tired as hell from the sleepless night, and the packing and everything, I felt I still needed to do something nice with the rest of the day, so at 5pm I decided to head up to Table Mountain to watch the sunset over the ocean. A bus gets you up to the cable car station, […] Read More
Meet the cockroach…
Cockroaches can be found all over the world, and I have met my fair share of them on this trip. They love to live in hot climate (and I’m traveling through summer) and find tons to eat in our trash. You can’t really get rid of them. Cynics say that the only surviving beings after a […] Read More
Back to the real world?
If you’re wondering what is going on and if I am actually in Cape Town…. yes, still here! I’ve just been hibernating a bit, and I have to admit that I have not done much in these first few days. I mostly went to the beach, hung out in Cafés, read a whole book, met […] Read More
Longitude
I realized: I have actually completed my second round of circling the globe. Even though I am not back in Europe, I am more or less on the same longitude. Here are the coordinates: Cape Town, South Africa: 33°55′ S, 18°22′ E Tel Aviv, Israel: 32°5′ N, 34°48′ E I am some 16° west of Tel Aviv […] Read More