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Week 7 Part 1
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Week 8
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Week 10 Part 1
Week 10 Part 2
Party time
2008/10/03
2008/10/03
During the week I didn't find much time to explore Cape Town. I'd a closer look around in Sea Point, the district of Cape Town, where I was staying. On Friday evening, however, we went to a pub in the city centre. We - that means Daniela and I - decided to take a minibus, which is one typical public transport system of South Africa. For entering one you'd just to stay at the road and raise a hand, so that the next bus stops for you. The normal fee, being 50 Rand, is paid to the driver or his assistant. Normally, it is a kind of VW bus which is used. An assistant is sitting near to the door and shooting the direction, they are heading to.
I'd used a minibus before and knew they are built to take about 16 passengers. This one, however, was filled with 22 people plus driver and while we were hearing loudly played hip hop music, we had a pre evening party in there. Later on we met some more people at the Dubliner, a kind of Irish pub where they were playing life music. We had a great time and partied until early morning.
Castle and market
2008/10/04
2008/10/04
It was time for sightseeing. At the party the last night we'd decided to visit the castle of Cape Town and the flew market. Early in the morning we headed to the flew market square. Arriving at 9 o'clock in the morning, we found there a really busy area filled with sellers offering cheap and cheaper cloths. Being only a nice view for us, the market must be essential for the poorer families of South Africa. T-Shirts, trousers and underwear was being offered at prices around one euro. Though most of the clothes looked quite new, there were some heavily used things to buy. We suspected that these were stolen ones.
The castle of Cape Town was situated near to the market square. It was built by the British conquerors in the late 19th century. We hoped to see the change of guards, which should happen in public every Tuesday and Saturday but unfortunately we didn't see the guards at all. Being a little bit disappointed we had a look around at the castle itself. There were three different exceptions shown insight the castle. Two of them, we one about the life style of the former settlers and the one of the wars between the British and the Burren people, we visited.
Having finished the visit of the castle early when expected, we went on to the Waterfront. At the out sight podium we were able to watch a comedian and so we spent a great deal of our afternoon there and later we walked back to our residence along the water front.
