Tag: travel
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Cape Town Beach Tour
Though most of our travel days are carefully planned, I try to leave a day or two open for spontaneous activities. As we have nothing scheduled post our Paragliding adventure, we hop on the Hop On Hop Off Bus for a self-guided Cape Town Beach Tour. Hout Bay During our tours earlier in the week,…
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Paragliding with Cape Town Tandem Paragliding
*I received a media discount for this experience. I promise all opinions are my own. I wake up in the middle of the night to the wind gusting so hard , it sounds as if a freight train is driving through our Peninsula All-Suites Hotel room. My heart is sad. If the wind continues, there…
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Visiting Cape Point-Cape of Good Hope-South Africa
We’re not budget travelers per se, but we do travel with a budget. Though we aren’t the biggest fans of large group, bus tours, the City Sightseeing, Cape Point and Penguin Day Tour, allowed us to see Cape Point within our budget. It seemed like a good idea to do the budget version of this…
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Penguin Fun-Visiting Boulders Beach-South Africa
It was one of those rare days when the Travel Channel actually had a show on about travel. It was a show counting down the best 100 beaches in the world. Using the show as background noise, the overly animated, voice over guy, suddenly grabbed my attention. He touted a beach in South Africa where…
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Jazz Brunch at Harveys-Cape Town
Warm sunshine splashes over us as we take our seats in Harveys’ outdoor, courtyard. Our server greets us with two welcoming flutes of champagne, then briefly goes over the highlights of the brunch buffet. We are free to go up and participate in the bounty, but first, we take a few moments to appreciate our…
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Visiting Kirstenbosch Garden-Cape Town
The weather in Cape Town, is fascinating. It’s not unusual for the weather to be one way on one side of the mountain and completely opposite on the other. We finish our jazz brunch at Harvey’s, on a patio flooded with sunshine, but as our Hop on Hop Off Bus winds its way around Table…
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Staying at The Peninsula All-Suite Hotel-Cape Town
We enter The Peninsula All-Suite Hotel’s lobby, and plop down on one of the sofas. We need a plan B for our day, but we are lost as to what to do. Sensing our bewilderment, Alistair approaches. He asks if we are checking into the hotel today. A bundle of kindness, effervescence, and animation, Alistair…
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Wine Flies-Wine Tour-Part 2-Cape Town
*I received a media discount for the following tour. I promise that all opinions are my own. Oh no! Mark, our Wine Flies Wine Tour guide, stops the van. We are winding our way up Middelvlei Wine Estates’ drive, when we pass one of their donkeys, whose head is stuck in the fence. Mark jumps…
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Wine Flies-Wine Tour-Part 1-Cape Town
*I received a media discount for the following tour. I promise that all opinions are my own. The van comes to a stop. Our Wine Flies Tour guide, Mark, exits to pick up more guests. As we wait, the playlist that is playing in the van moves to the next song. I hear it. First…