Posted in June, 2007

South Africa to Madagascar

We’re now in Madagascar, and this posting is coming straight from Antananarivo, the capital of this interesting country.
Since we last posted… Internet has been hard to come by. Between lack of availability and it being the national holidays this last couple (many things are closed), just haven’t made it. We have so many […]

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Cape of Good Hope & Robben Island

Today is our third wedding anniversary and we had a great time.
This morning we got up and purchased tickets for the ferry/tour to Robben Island, which is the island near Cape Town where Nelson Mandela spent 17 years in a prison. We then drove out to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point, […]

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Cape Town

Hello from Cape Town.
We arrived last night at about 7pm. After a bit of a kafuffle (ie forgot which rental car company we went through…) we managed to find our car and our hostel in Cape Town. The car is a VW Polo - we both think it’s pretty sweet, wouldn’t mind trading […]

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Kruger Park

We spent 2 days in Kruger National Park here in South Africa with Sarah’s parents Dave and Donna. It was very cool, saw lots of wild animals including: leopard, elephant, zebra, rhino, hippo, and hundreds of impala. We’re at the airport going to fly to Cape Town where we’ll base from, with a […]

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Day: 2

Guten Tag!
The first leg of our travel to Africa is nearly complete. We arrived in Frankfurt yesterday morning at 11:00am local time. After several laps around the airport we found the baggage storage and the train station. We hopped on a standing room only bombardier (200km/hr train!) and made our way […]

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