Tag Archives: Saturday

Cape Town – a quick visitor’s to-do guide


A snippet from the U K Sunday Times about Cape Town – undoubtedly the most exquisite city and a must-see for any world traveller: How you spend Saturday morning is the litmus test of how well you know the city. Visitors head for … Continue reading

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Trying to get to a grocer at midday on a Saturday – the effects of urbanisation and poor planning!!


As we live in Kigamboni, we have one of two options – either sit in the ferry queue for hours or try your luck the long way round into town.  We tried the latter on Saturday, and it was a … Continue reading

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Springboks vs All Blacks – as watched by ex-pats in Dar!!


Saturday morning found us heading over the ferry at some God-forsaken hour like 7 am (early for us on a Saturday), so that we can be at the George and Dragon English Pub in the more Mzungu area of town … Continue reading

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The End of Ramadan


End of Ramadan and we celebrated Eid ul Fitr with locals at Kijiji Beach. For the whole month of Ramadan we had the beach almost to ourselves late afternoons for our strolls with the dogs.  By that hour the followers … Continue reading

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