11/29/06  5:28 AM  Eastern Time (Delaware County,Pennsylvania,USA):zip19050 The map says you're now in Cape Town, South Africa ..Congradulations! I've only read two books on Cape Town...I."Africa"(ISBN 0671628097) by author, Sanford J.Ungar which has a grand appendix(Pgs 495-518:re  Angola-Zimbabwe) inclusive of their "colonial or former names":e.g. Botswanda 's former name was Bechuanaland & was a Britain (protectorate) and gained independence 09/30/1966....and II.author, William Finnegan's "Crossing The Line,A Year In The Land of Apartheid..Finnegan taught a year at" Grassy Park Senior Secondary School"in 1980..(ISBN 0520088727)..There was an article in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania's "The Philadelphia Inquirer"(zip 19103) in '2004 by staff writer, Sudarsan Raghavan regarding a return to "Cape Town's District Six" by many who had been evicted in 1959(e.g. Dan Ndzabela ,age 82 & Ebrahim Murat, age 87)..the article was about District Six and "land issues" was according to the article a major issue for President Thabo Mbeki who was scheduled that week to be sworn in for a second term.11/29/06 abj

Congratulations!

Glad you enjoyed Namibia - I had an amazing time there in August.  The dunes are incredible aren't they?!

Hope you have a great time in South Africa.

Love,

Robyn x p.s. only seven and a half working days till the school holidays; hurrah!  It is so much more exciting as a teacher than as a kid.

Brilliant! Well done guys! Now, don't get mugged in Joburg after all your adventures!

11/27/06  3:29 PM (Eastern Time) USA  I happened upon your site"offexploring.com/london2capetown/ "due to an MSN article today on the Princes William and Harry regarding a charity that PrinceWilliam is patron of "Tusk Trust"..(They're also doing a benefit for Princess Diana in London next summer for another charity that their mother was involved in "Centrepoint".your pictures are great....Hope your journey nets you both "Ggreaaat" jobs(as Kelloggs Cereal's  "Tony the Tiger" would say) when you complete your journeys' goals..as the expression goes "Success is the Journey, not the Destination"....Hopefully some of my younger kin will be challenge themselves with some great adventure.  11/27/06 andreabjackson, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA

News for the off exploring fan club!!

Alastair has texted today to say that they should reach Constantia today and into Capetown proper tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

I shall hold back on the congratulatory messages until we have confirmation from the boys that they have well and truly arrived but by sheer coincidence all 4 parents are meeting for dinner tomorrow night.

Huns 3 Killie 0

Scotland 15 Aussies 44

Test match lost by a mere 277 runs

Pissing with rain and blowing a gale

Otherwise all great here!

Great post card from Namibia Henry. You should clearly have taken over from my son more often!

Only joking Baazy i have hit the 'Good Read' button after every update.

Please desist from any more extreme activities. buggy rolling!?. we would like you both back in one piece! 

Darting leopards... thats what i should be doing not you, not fair! Oh well glad you had to do some boring stuff too! Ooh just thought, if you have got to know ths chap well do you think he would like a vet student to help him?!

Two weeks til my birthday, yeay ! And long til you are home !

Killie 2 Falkirk 1

Scotland also beat the Pacific Islanders at Murrayfield - 30 odd points up at half time and then the Islanders (all Fijians, Samoans, etc) woke up in the 2nd half and scored some brilliant tries. Still, comfortable win.

Further to Alex' message, England finally beat someone - scraped thru v South Africa (you may have seen it given you were at Africat) by a couple of points right at the end having been 12 points down (more or less a South African reserve side though!).

Ashes start on Thursday. Looks like it may not be as grim as Alex said as England have done better in the last couple of games, but still fancy the Aussies to win. 

Hi Henry Alistair

Mel here from elephant.co.uk - Good to see you are doing so well.  Looks like your having an amazing time.  I am keeping the staff at elephant up todate with your adventures. 

Stay safe and look forward to hearing more

Warm regards

Mel

This one is actually for Big Marge,

 The pair of them have just left us here at the Africat Foundation in Namibia. I have to inform you that although I heard talk of the enema I certainly never saw it in use [thank god] and I fear to tell you that I do not think Ali is considering using that option.

I did see him eating a very hearty breakfast of fried egg and bacon stuffed into a white roll while muttering something about the healthy option not tasting as good. Last night we took them to dinner at the Bushcamp where copious amounts of food got consumed and once again white bread and butter played a large part in the whole proceedings. Before, during and for a long time after the meal alcohol, of various colours and % vol, dissapeared into Ali and Henry's hollow legs while we were entertained with funny anecdotes from their travels thus far.

The reason I am telling you all this Big Marge is that I have read through some of the previous missives that the boys posted at an earlier date and there seems to be a few porky's being being told, something about cereal and biscuits and the pounds dropping off and the shorts being a bit loose! You really need to get Ali on a workable food regime and ASAP because I think he will be returning to the UK wearing exactly the same clothes he left in and not the 27 inch waist lycra cat suit that all his friends and family were expecting.

On a more serious note they were game for anything so we threw them straight in at the deep end. I will let them tell you what they got up to but suffice it to say they made themselves extremelly useful. Great lads, enjoy the rest of the trip and well done on the fund raising. Keep in touch, Carla says Hi.

Oh, by the way Marge they are now in the land of the enormous steak and will remain so until they get back to Blighty, me thinks Ali could return even "healthier" than when he left!!!!

Men

 keep up the good work

eyes on the road, left right AND THEN LEFT AGAIN, (never forget that one) off to pizza express nad then some lash, but without my portable drinks dispenser such as yours so might be a tad hampered

bling

parks