by Traveller | Nov 28, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
If you haven’t been to Cape Town, get here. It’s a wonderful city even though “Call Me Maybe” is playing in the restaurant where I’m sitting now. Oh, wait. New song? “Truly, Madly, Deeply” by Savage Garden. Really? Well, at...
by Traveller | Nov 27, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
This morning, I felt a bit like a guy that I saw at Kirstenbosch Gardens yesterday. He didn’t particularly want to be there so he was asking his friends, “What are we supposed to do here?” After a lengthy internal dialogue, I chose not to remain in...
by Traveller | Nov 26, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
This morning I was greeted again by Phillip — this guy is everywhere. He helped me piece together some of the foggy memories from yesterday’s wine tour. You see, when someone says they’re going on a “wine tour,” it’s really just...
by Traveller | Nov 25, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
What a surprise! This morning, Kurt the fax-master had something nice in store for me: A one-on-one tour of the wine country around Cape Town. Sunday is a slow day here. The driver was Phillip, from the Ukraine. He collected me at 08:30. It was just the two of us so...
by Traveller | Nov 24, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
On checking into my hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, I had a message waiting. That’s always so exciting. It’s usually just a note letting me know that the materials for an upcoming sales training program have arrived. This time it was a bit different. The...