Cape Town...8-9th April.............The harbour area is very very good. A very large complex of shops and restaurants.We explored this for a while, and the weather being absolutely perfect, we caught the red bus which is an open topped affair and which took us around the city, with a running commentary. We got off at the bottom of the cable car which ascends Table Mountain, which looks very spectacular and is on the edge of town.Trouble was, it was Easter Sunday ...

Durban, South Africa.......Friday April 6th..........We were strongly advised by several people not to wear any obvious jewelry or wander the city on our own as the crime rate is very high away from the more populated tourist beach areas.Being the reasonable people that we are, we and two friends rented a taxi for several hours to take us out of the city to an area called 1000 Hills. We visited a kind of safari park where they bred crocodiles and snakes. Seeing t...

Seychelles Sunday April 1st.............Beautiful island in the Indian Ocean. Very clean, neat and tidy town of Victoria but, alas, being Sunday, everything was closed. So, four of us took a taxi across the island to a gorgeous beach resort. Golden sand, blue water, hot sunshine , but with a cooling breeze. Sounds like a travelogue doesn't it? Anyway we walked along the beach for about half a mile, then sat on the terrace of a posh hotel and drank the local b...