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We arrived in Durban on Sunday night and stayed in a little hostel on top of a hill in the Berea area. The first day was spent wandering down Florida road (the trendy part of Durban with lots of restaurants etc.) and trying to find the beach. The weather was really hot and humid, we both got pretty sunburnt, but the sea was lovely. That night the heavens opened and a huge thunderstorm began... and lasted for the week! In order to overcome the rain we spent the next few days in the various malls of the city; me watching loads of movies while Alice shopped to her heart's content.
After a few days in Berea we moved to a different hostel down on the Point because we wanted to be closer to the sea. The place seemed pretty nice but when we went for a meal with some of my relatives (excellent food!) we were informed it was one of the roughest areas of the whole city! Still we had no problems and it was right next to the uShaka Marie Park where we spent one very cold and wet day watching dolphins jump up and down in time to music, looking at some of the scary, scary sharks that inhabit the waters we've been swimming in, and freezing our arses off on the water slides.
Not that we'd had enough of course - the next day we took on the world famous waves and went for a surfing lesson. Our instructor was somewhat of a living legend, he must have been going on 65 and had obviously been hit on the head by a sufboard far too many times, but was really great. He literally dragged us out past all the rip tides and pushed us in, but we were still knackered after an hour. Putting us to shame though were the hardcore guys who jumped into the water at the ends of Durban's many piers - timing here was essential for not getting pushed back into the pier, but made for an excellent spectator sport!
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