Servus!
Hab mich ja jetzt hier schon ne Weile nicht mehr verewigt, um genau zu sein seit mehr als 2 Wochen und da ich grad nicht besonders viel Zeit habe (wie immer) hier mal ein kurzer Abriss der letzten 2 Wochen:
16.12. Thursday
"Red dot district museum" in Port Elizabeth about History of Apartheid and Townships
Drive around PE to watch out for the landscape in bad weather conditions
17.12. Friday
We had a traditional Breakfast at the Nanga Padstall, drove along an amazing Pass (Oilifantskop) and vistited the Addo Elephant National Park.
18.12. Saturday
I have to leave PE and on my way through the whole country to josy i stopped at the Valley of Desolation (ancient landscape) next to Graff-Reinet and got to Nieu-Bethesda late in the evining passing a huge Thunderstorm (special thing is, only lightnings, no thunderbolts).
19.12. Sunday
Nieu-Bethesda is in the middle of nowhere, but was host for a very famous female artist living in the now called Owl-House. Very feautiful drawings on the walls and statues in the garden. Also the Old mill and the Brewery are worth a visit. On the way to Bloemfontein (boring city) i passed the Gariep-Dam (biggest in SA). I took easy sunday evening watching bayern vs. Stuttgart in the hostel.
The night in Nieu Bethesda and Bloemfontein were really bad, because of two different reasons, first: mosquitos; second: bunch of black time workers :(
20.12. Monday
A really boring drive to Josy (landscape flat like russian tundra) got me to the JIA awaiting and collecting marco there. The traffic in josy can be described with „busy“ :D (never say sth. against german traffic again). In the evening we talked a lot and had some beers in a shebeena (old word for a place where only blacks were allowed to eat and alcohol was prohibited, but sold anyway)
21.12. Tuesday
Visiting the Cradle of Mankind and an old Dam near Josy. Drive-around the city and suburbs and townships aswell (sowetho – biggest ts in za)
22.12. Wednesday
Long visit to the Apartheid-Museum and a drive to sabie next in the Drakensberge through the Steenkampsberge (nice landscape).
23.12. Thursday
We drove along the Panaroma-Route along the Drakensberge passing MacMac-Pools, MacMac-Falls, Berlin Falls, Gods-Window, Rain Forest, Bourke`s Luck Potholes and the Blyde River Canyon (often compared to the grand canyon).
In the evening we searched for some Glowing Mushrooms at the Waterfalls in sabie (and found them)
24.12. Friday
Driving through the rain to hazeyview next to the Kruger Park and trying to get an accomondation (offers between 600-900$ pP/pN). So we got to a hostel in hazeyview (well, sometime there are good hostels and sometimes bad one). Did our Christmas shopping at picknplay (dont try to imagine what was going on :D). My Christmas Present to Marco was a 5ltr package of a „good“ natural sweet rosé (and some jollys aswell), aisch ...
25.12. Saturday 1st Christmas-Day
Both weaking up with a big Headache. In the evening the first Safari Night-Drive seeing some bufallos, hyenas, owls, impalas, hippos, crocs far away, some monkeys got us into heavy Rain and a thunderstorm (streets nearly under water). But we had a good christmas-meal after that back in the hostel.
26.12. Sunday 2nd Christmas-Day
We had to get up at 3 o´clock for a Bush-Walk seeing the rhino, impalas, maybe a leopard or a wild-dog (was too fast). Good breakfast and then we took the drive to st. lucia through nelspruit, around swaziland along highways in a terrible condition. On the night i had my first complete own braai (marco was excited, never had that good meat before :D). "I made myself to fruits" dancing a traditionel zulu-dance (i hope the video will delete own his own :D). Got into a bar with the first good Pool-Table for Marco in SA, we beat every local team (just loosing 2 in 14 matches). Marco fall in love with a girl (just virtually =), i was falling in love with double club-dright-cola (brandy and coke).
27.12. Monday
We had to get up to early again (u know: headache danger like 100%) and were walking around st. lucia for 1 ½ hrs searching for the meeting point for kayak tours we booked. Unfortunatly it was to windy, so we took a Horse-Ride on the beach.
And spent the rest on the beach and again in the pub with the guys from sa.
28.12. Tuesday
No more wind, kayking time ;). Crocs like 3 meters away and hippos you can reach with your paddel. Yeaaaahaaa. But don´t worry, driving around sa is much more dangerous, especially for secure drivers like marco. But he did a quite good job. And we arrived alive after 8hrs in coffee-bay. No, not really. It took us this time till the junction to cb (700km), the last 80km took another 2 1/2 hrs (high density, bad road, no road, unbelivable)
29.12. Wednesday
Awakening with about 100 stiches per arm or feet we got to the hole in the wall. Really nice landscape again driving through the wild-transkeei. I have to say the Kia approved his off-road-qualities on this drive finally! Everybody driven 4x4-Cars stopped and asked us if we are crazy going there with this car. But we did ;) In the evening we had a good traditional supper and a lot of conversations to locals (and a good time at the bar aswell)
30.12. Thursday
A nearly perfect sleep without any mosquitos (thx luca for the anti-oil) and a perfect breakfast got us strong enough for our surfing lessons in the noon. Now i almost tried boarding under every circumstance and ground (snow, water, sand, street). And it worked perfect! First wave, first try, first ride, i call this natural talent :D Maybe i was just lucky cause the next waves tumbled me down nearly every time ;)
Afterwards we drove to Port Elizabeth and ran almost out of gas. Everybody who knows me well, knows what this means (the lamp for empty gas burned almost 120kms and marco got a little bit crazy). Just stay calm!
31.12. Friday and New Years Eve!
Getting a rest and preparing for the biggest party of the year right at the Beach! And writing this blogg-entry aswell!
Jo, so schauts aus! Ein Jahr voller Höhen und Tiefen nimmt ein hoffentlich gutes Ende! Ich wünsche euch allen eine wunderschöne Silvesternacht (die wenigsten werden das wohl noch lesen), aber defintiv einen guten Start ins neue Jahr und alles gute für euch und eure Liebsten! Und auch schöne Grüße vom Marco ;)
Sven
Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010
Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010
Awesome days along the garden route
Hello guys and gals!
First time it took me quite a few days to write a new posting for this blog. Maybe this gonna happen more times now :D
In think my last entry was on thursday last week on my stay in Mossel Bay. Time is moving too fast almost now, and sometimes i have to ask, what day it is :D
The dormroom on the train was very big, with space enough for 16 beds. There was a group of a few dutch pupils who did a school project in sa. But like everytime, there was a german student too.
We thought about what to do next day and decided for a trip to the little karoo. There are three typical landscapes in sa: the more mountain area, which the little karoo is typical for, the savannah (called the middle karoo) and of course the red dirt dessert (you already know what comes) the big karoo.
So we drove to the centre spot of the karoo, a town called Oudtshoorn (please don´t look up google or wiki, cause i can´t remember the way every village is written). First we passed Houdsbaai and went to the Congo Caves. Now maybe you have already looked up the pictures i loaded up the days before, so i don´t have to describe you how beautiful they were. And only the first of 5 parts of the cave is opend to visitors, the other parts are completly white and have to be much more better. Of course we took the adventure tour, which was sometimes really difficult.
On our way back Oudtshoorn we stopped at a oystrich farm. The little Karoo is world-famous for their farms, cause they got the best climate around this area to raise little oystrich and then sell them or even export them to germany. There was a little tour around farm and at the end everyone had the possibility to ride and oystrich. Because of the lame internet and the big hd-videos you unfortunatly have to wait till you can laugh off me. And all the fun for 35R :D
On my way back to Mossel Bay i drove the fourth mountain-pass the day (thats why they call this tour the four-passes-drive). The view on the first three passes was amazing, but the fourth pass was fully in clouds. You even couldn´t see the front of your own car. And that on a road in sa :D
The evening was the first time i spent in the hostel in sa. Well, at the bar of course. It was funny, because i got the attention of a gay south-african who payed me everything (but don´t worry, nothing happend afterwards). At this point i can tell you there are a lot gay people in sa, you will see...
On saturday i planned to leave Mossel Bay, but not before i rode the biggest dune in sa (about 350m long). When i got i rainned a bit and i thought this will be not a got day, but maybe it was the best of my whole trip till now, cause everytime it thought i was unfortune sth. really lucky happend to me :D
We, me and 2 girls from sweden, went to the "Dragon Lagune". You can reach this place only by driving a 4x4. We had a guide who told us everything about the area and sandboarding as well. Cause we were all experienced snowboarders, we started with the biggest dune and passed the beginner-hills. It was a lot of fun, but you get really exhausted, cause everytime you go downhill you have to climb up the dune own your own. There are no cable cars like in the alps. Now the first lucky thing about the day: i ever thought, that the sand has to be really dry and the sandstones have to be a little bit bigger, a fault the guide told us. The sand has to be really fine and wet, then you can go really fast. It was perfect day to set a record :D
After 3 hours and many rides we were that tired that we got back, or better i went on with my journey. The next city to Mossel Bay is George, and luckily again, it was hosting the super seven´s that weekend. The preeliminations were allready on friday but i vistited the finals. Now you will ask, wtf are the S7s? Its the fastest version of playing rugby. You have 7 player per team and only 7 minutes per halftime on the whole field. So there is enough space to play rugby really fast with a lot of try´s (a try is when you reach the endzone to make some points). Enough rules explained, just let me tell how lucky i was again. When i reached the ground a one a clock, of course it was completly sold out. But there is no sport event in the world without a black market (sounds bit funny in sa :D). They sold tickets for the southern stand worth 180R. I got my ticket for 150R :D The guy next to me in the block paid 300R (you may now already understand, But it will get better). Of course i had no clue about rugby before, but the guy (who worked from 1990-1992 in dresden) told me everything about the game. No german would probably do this, he answered me every question, even if i asked him twice. But there was another point about my seat in the stadium, cause the ticket i bought got me right into the hard supporters block of the all blacks (the name for the nationalteam of new zealand, cause they are playing in all black clothes ;). The all blacks are the best team in the world, and because of there name they have a really huge fanbase in sa. And you know, black people know how to party, when i am back in germany i will load up all the videos i took (btw. the maximum speed of the internet is 10mbit, the most times they got only 4mb and some are using 28k or 56k dialup modems). So i was lucky again. The whole tournament took about 7 hrs on saturday, with more than 50 matches played, by 16 nations. And if south african can´t organize anything, what they can is organizing a sports event. Even germany can learn something about it there.
Although George has a really nice rugby ground, there is nothing more interesting about this city, so tried to stay in Houds Bay but there was no hostel. I looked up my coast to coast guide an it told me that there is some nightlife in Knysna. On my way there they catched me again, damn :D But as i arrived at the hostel, and i asked for a bed there, i met the first unfriendly person in sa. Not that hard, but he told me i have to book my night before. Even if there were some free rooms. Ok, if you don´t want my money i can leave. It was even to quite in this place. So i got to the next village callend Plattenberg Bay (or just Platt). A guy i met the day before from sa told me that i have to go there because its the spot for the south african springbreak. Unfortunatly it ended on friday, one day before i got there. But wait, have i said unfortunatly, yes, but it was a luck to me. I got my own dorm room for me alone and of course there were some students who had not left the town. In Plett i met Jason and Sean who are from port elizabeth (p.e.;where i´m stayin till now). It was a funny night there. They knew all the locations and i was treated like a local (cheaper drinks and so on). We where stopped by the police (i wasn´t driving my own car) and they asked us the same questions like in germany. Sean left his drivers license at home and told the officers an unbelivable story that im not from Platt and that they take care of my driving me home. The only thing i had to do, was to show my I.D.-Card and nothing happend. If were driving alone, i would get locked up for sure, they told me. Well, i believe them :D We got back to the hostel the sun was already rising up over the sea. An unbeliable view (the best view in platt).
On sunday i went on to p.e. with jason. He was that happy about it, that i can stay at his home now all the days. He lives in a flat-community with 3 other guys, one of them a dj. We passed the Bloukrans Bridge (which will get much space later in this blog, but i won´t tell you know why :D). We allso passed the Storms River Bridge (highest bridge in sa). The landscape in this part of south africa is amazing, with a lot of trees, mountains, valleys, rivers and so. The whole part a long the N2 is called the garden route, or as the south african say, the "Garden of Eden". Well, you can trust me they are right ;)
We also looked up for the big tree, about 800 years old and tall enough that it takes 10 people to build a circle around it. On our way to P.E. we stopped at Jeffreys Bay a world famous surfingspot. Every years it hosts the sa surfing world cup. And now you may get jealous. There is a Billabong Outlet where the sell everything for just a quarter of the original price. I got 2 shorts, a hoody zipper, 3 shirts, 1 pair of slops and a laptopbag for 1300R. You can´t imagine the big smile on my face when i left this store. Arriving in P.E. we went out for some bears in Barney´s Tavern, the Casino (i have to earn some money :D) and Steers.
On monday jason showed me all the sights in P.E. and we went to the beach and the university of p.e.
Yesterday the forecasted really bad weather (rain and only 17°C) but unfortunatly there was no wind, only sun and about 26°C in shade :D. Whe took the whole day at the beach, swimming and playing rugby. In the evening we had a braai and something to smoke as well (i can´t remember exactly what i was, but i´m sure you understand me ;D)
Because its raining today we take a rest today before we will head out tonight for a foam party. Tommorow is the season opening in P.E. (like a huge christmasparty at the beach). I will stay here for some days more and head on to Jo´burg on saturday or sunday awaiting "The one and only worlds greates Don Juan de Carmossimi" for a safari trip to the Krugers National Park!
Now you know a little bit better about what i´ve done the last days but i can´t describe you the way i feel about the people and everything about here. I just can say that everyone is very friendly, open for everything new (they really ask me a lot of questions about germany), very youngminded, very pleasent, some descent, proud of their nature, hard into sports and happy to live their live on the easy way and not worrying that lot like in germany. But sometimes or in some cases they are also living in the past days of the apartheid. It will take them a really long process that there will be a feeling of living together, cause till now every race is living on their own. The townships were an experience for life and its hard to understand that are not more riots here (the circumstances of living there is indiscusable). The difference between rich and poor is that big, no city or district in germany can be compared to it. But thats sa. I think a lot about it, if i could accept this for me to stay that near to all those problems without a solution. I really don´t know, all i can say, trust me my friends, you have to use the fortune that you have started your life in europe and please don´t worry about those little things in everydays life. There are some more problems in the world you should think over.
Allright, keep your heads up and use your mind.
PS: I will write some postcards now. But don´t expect them to arrive before Christmas or New Years Day. If anybody wishes a card just tell me; not those of you who allready told me ;)
First time it took me quite a few days to write a new posting for this blog. Maybe this gonna happen more times now :D
In think my last entry was on thursday last week on my stay in Mossel Bay. Time is moving too fast almost now, and sometimes i have to ask, what day it is :D
The dormroom on the train was very big, with space enough for 16 beds. There was a group of a few dutch pupils who did a school project in sa. But like everytime, there was a german student too.
We thought about what to do next day and decided for a trip to the little karoo. There are three typical landscapes in sa: the more mountain area, which the little karoo is typical for, the savannah (called the middle karoo) and of course the red dirt dessert (you already know what comes) the big karoo.
So we drove to the centre spot of the karoo, a town called Oudtshoorn (please don´t look up google or wiki, cause i can´t remember the way every village is written). First we passed Houdsbaai and went to the Congo Caves. Now maybe you have already looked up the pictures i loaded up the days before, so i don´t have to describe you how beautiful they were. And only the first of 5 parts of the cave is opend to visitors, the other parts are completly white and have to be much more better. Of course we took the adventure tour, which was sometimes really difficult.
On our way back Oudtshoorn we stopped at a oystrich farm. The little Karoo is world-famous for their farms, cause they got the best climate around this area to raise little oystrich and then sell them or even export them to germany. There was a little tour around farm and at the end everyone had the possibility to ride and oystrich. Because of the lame internet and the big hd-videos you unfortunatly have to wait till you can laugh off me. And all the fun for 35R :D
On my way back to Mossel Bay i drove the fourth mountain-pass the day (thats why they call this tour the four-passes-drive). The view on the first three passes was amazing, but the fourth pass was fully in clouds. You even couldn´t see the front of your own car. And that on a road in sa :D
The evening was the first time i spent in the hostel in sa. Well, at the bar of course. It was funny, because i got the attention of a gay south-african who payed me everything (but don´t worry, nothing happend afterwards). At this point i can tell you there are a lot gay people in sa, you will see...
On saturday i planned to leave Mossel Bay, but not before i rode the biggest dune in sa (about 350m long). When i got i rainned a bit and i thought this will be not a got day, but maybe it was the best of my whole trip till now, cause everytime it thought i was unfortune sth. really lucky happend to me :D
We, me and 2 girls from sweden, went to the "Dragon Lagune". You can reach this place only by driving a 4x4. We had a guide who told us everything about the area and sandboarding as well. Cause we were all experienced snowboarders, we started with the biggest dune and passed the beginner-hills. It was a lot of fun, but you get really exhausted, cause everytime you go downhill you have to climb up the dune own your own. There are no cable cars like in the alps. Now the first lucky thing about the day: i ever thought, that the sand has to be really dry and the sandstones have to be a little bit bigger, a fault the guide told us. The sand has to be really fine and wet, then you can go really fast. It was perfect day to set a record :D
After 3 hours and many rides we were that tired that we got back, or better i went on with my journey. The next city to Mossel Bay is George, and luckily again, it was hosting the super seven´s that weekend. The preeliminations were allready on friday but i vistited the finals. Now you will ask, wtf are the S7s? Its the fastest version of playing rugby. You have 7 player per team and only 7 minutes per halftime on the whole field. So there is enough space to play rugby really fast with a lot of try´s (a try is when you reach the endzone to make some points). Enough rules explained, just let me tell how lucky i was again. When i reached the ground a one a clock, of course it was completly sold out. But there is no sport event in the world without a black market (sounds bit funny in sa :D). They sold tickets for the southern stand worth 180R. I got my ticket for 150R :D The guy next to me in the block paid 300R (you may now already understand, But it will get better). Of course i had no clue about rugby before, but the guy (who worked from 1990-1992 in dresden) told me everything about the game. No german would probably do this, he answered me every question, even if i asked him twice. But there was another point about my seat in the stadium, cause the ticket i bought got me right into the hard supporters block of the all blacks (the name for the nationalteam of new zealand, cause they are playing in all black clothes ;). The all blacks are the best team in the world, and because of there name they have a really huge fanbase in sa. And you know, black people know how to party, when i am back in germany i will load up all the videos i took (btw. the maximum speed of the internet is 10mbit, the most times they got only 4mb and some are using 28k or 56k dialup modems). So i was lucky again. The whole tournament took about 7 hrs on saturday, with more than 50 matches played, by 16 nations. And if south african can´t organize anything, what they can is organizing a sports event. Even germany can learn something about it there.
Although George has a really nice rugby ground, there is nothing more interesting about this city, so tried to stay in Houds Bay but there was no hostel. I looked up my coast to coast guide an it told me that there is some nightlife in Knysna. On my way there they catched me again, damn :D But as i arrived at the hostel, and i asked for a bed there, i met the first unfriendly person in sa. Not that hard, but he told me i have to book my night before. Even if there were some free rooms. Ok, if you don´t want my money i can leave. It was even to quite in this place. So i got to the next village callend Plattenberg Bay (or just Platt). A guy i met the day before from sa told me that i have to go there because its the spot for the south african springbreak. Unfortunatly it ended on friday, one day before i got there. But wait, have i said unfortunatly, yes, but it was a luck to me. I got my own dorm room for me alone and of course there were some students who had not left the town. In Plett i met Jason and Sean who are from port elizabeth (p.e.;where i´m stayin till now). It was a funny night there. They knew all the locations and i was treated like a local (cheaper drinks and so on). We where stopped by the police (i wasn´t driving my own car) and they asked us the same questions like in germany. Sean left his drivers license at home and told the officers an unbelivable story that im not from Platt and that they take care of my driving me home. The only thing i had to do, was to show my I.D.-Card and nothing happend. If were driving alone, i would get locked up for sure, they told me. Well, i believe them :D We got back to the hostel the sun was already rising up over the sea. An unbeliable view (the best view in platt).
On sunday i went on to p.e. with jason. He was that happy about it, that i can stay at his home now all the days. He lives in a flat-community with 3 other guys, one of them a dj. We passed the Bloukrans Bridge (which will get much space later in this blog, but i won´t tell you know why :D). We allso passed the Storms River Bridge (highest bridge in sa). The landscape in this part of south africa is amazing, with a lot of trees, mountains, valleys, rivers and so. The whole part a long the N2 is called the garden route, or as the south african say, the "Garden of Eden". Well, you can trust me they are right ;)
We also looked up for the big tree, about 800 years old and tall enough that it takes 10 people to build a circle around it. On our way to P.E. we stopped at Jeffreys Bay a world famous surfingspot. Every years it hosts the sa surfing world cup. And now you may get jealous. There is a Billabong Outlet where the sell everything for just a quarter of the original price. I got 2 shorts, a hoody zipper, 3 shirts, 1 pair of slops and a laptopbag for 1300R. You can´t imagine the big smile on my face when i left this store. Arriving in P.E. we went out for some bears in Barney´s Tavern, the Casino (i have to earn some money :D) and Steers.
On monday jason showed me all the sights in P.E. and we went to the beach and the university of p.e.
Yesterday the forecasted really bad weather (rain and only 17°C) but unfortunatly there was no wind, only sun and about 26°C in shade :D. Whe took the whole day at the beach, swimming and playing rugby. In the evening we had a braai and something to smoke as well (i can´t remember exactly what i was, but i´m sure you understand me ;D)
Because its raining today we take a rest today before we will head out tonight for a foam party. Tommorow is the season opening in P.E. (like a huge christmasparty at the beach). I will stay here for some days more and head on to Jo´burg on saturday or sunday awaiting "The one and only worlds greates Don Juan de Carmossimi" for a safari trip to the Krugers National Park!
Now you know a little bit better about what i´ve done the last days but i can´t describe you the way i feel about the people and everything about here. I just can say that everyone is very friendly, open for everything new (they really ask me a lot of questions about germany), very youngminded, very pleasent, some descent, proud of their nature, hard into sports and happy to live their live on the easy way and not worrying that lot like in germany. But sometimes or in some cases they are also living in the past days of the apartheid. It will take them a really long process that there will be a feeling of living together, cause till now every race is living on their own. The townships were an experience for life and its hard to understand that are not more riots here (the circumstances of living there is indiscusable). The difference between rich and poor is that big, no city or district in germany can be compared to it. But thats sa. I think a lot about it, if i could accept this for me to stay that near to all those problems without a solution. I really don´t know, all i can say, trust me my friends, you have to use the fortune that you have started your life in europe and please don´t worry about those little things in everydays life. There are some more problems in the world you should think over.
Allright, keep your heads up and use your mind.
PS: I will write some postcards now. But don´t expect them to arrive before Christmas or New Years Day. If anybody wishes a card just tell me; not those of you who allready told me ;)
Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2010
From bad poverty to dissapative abundance - a short step in ZA
After my time-weired post last time, this time everything worked well. The tuesday night out got crazy, like my writing skills that evening, but not everything is supposed to get blogged ... :D
Well, today I´m tired. But unfortunatly i met a guy from durban and we will go out of course :) The sixth night in a row...
So, just a little list what i´ve done yesterday and today ;)
wednesday:
- township tour in the morning with shelly and a private guide (i will write about this later, cause i have to comment it)
- left capetown, and drove along the marine cost road to cape alghuas (passing bettys bay, hermanus and some other nice small towns) along some of the most beautiful villas
- take a swim at "Pearly Beach"
- drove the 4 types of roades in sa; highway, good road, bad road, gravel road (which isn´t a road actually)
- got flashed out of a car :((
- Visited Cape Alghuas (most southern tip of sa)
- met some students from stellenbosch in the hostel and talked to them about my study plans for sa (well, it looks like i will head on to apply there for 2012)
- talked to marius from neckars-ulm who works on a winery in paarl (i will go there for a weekend in january or february, so think about it, if you want to join :D)
- went out for a drink in the most-southern pub :))
- got a sleep in the most beautiful hostel i´ve ever seen next to the founder and owner of skynet (who offered me to drive one of his ferraris or lamborghinis when i´m back to cape town, weired guy, but really interresting to met)
thursday:
- went to the cave (more a groto) in arniston with marius and another guy from sa who knows this landscape like his "Westentasche" :D
- drove to Mossel Bay passing Swellendam on the N2, a road under construcution for about 100km; funny to see how they work, reminds me on the style of working in the former democratic republic of germany (5 guys, but only 1 blade)
- checked into the hostel in mossel bay; just an old train rebuilt as hostel, which is parked close to the beach
- went out to see some sights, not that much, cause Mossel Bay is to ZA sth. like Palma de Mallorca for Germany (it will get very busy here tommorow, cause the sa summer holidays (2 months) will start on friday)
- as i wrote, met heelgard from sa, and we will head out to a club/bar
And especially just for you, loaded up all pictures i´ve done the past 4 days ;) Enjoy them as i did ...
Tommorow i will go to Oudshorn in the great black mountains (which is said to be the most beautiful mounty landscape in za) and probably going to sandboard the biggest dune in sa (350m)
Have a nice day and prepare for your weekend, i have to do too ;)
lg Sven
Well, today I´m tired. But unfortunatly i met a guy from durban and we will go out of course :) The sixth night in a row...
So, just a little list what i´ve done yesterday and today ;)
wednesday:
- township tour in the morning with shelly and a private guide (i will write about this later, cause i have to comment it)
- left capetown, and drove along the marine cost road to cape alghuas (passing bettys bay, hermanus and some other nice small towns) along some of the most beautiful villas
- take a swim at "Pearly Beach"
- drove the 4 types of roades in sa; highway, good road, bad road, gravel road (which isn´t a road actually)
- got flashed out of a car :((
- Visited Cape Alghuas (most southern tip of sa)
- met some students from stellenbosch in the hostel and talked to them about my study plans for sa (well, it looks like i will head on to apply there for 2012)
- talked to marius from neckars-ulm who works on a winery in paarl (i will go there for a weekend in january or february, so think about it, if you want to join :D)
- went out for a drink in the most-southern pub :))
- got a sleep in the most beautiful hostel i´ve ever seen next to the founder and owner of skynet (who offered me to drive one of his ferraris or lamborghinis when i´m back to cape town, weired guy, but really interresting to met)
thursday:
- went to the cave (more a groto) in arniston with marius and another guy from sa who knows this landscape like his "Westentasche" :D
- drove to Mossel Bay passing Swellendam on the N2, a road under construcution for about 100km; funny to see how they work, reminds me on the style of working in the former democratic republic of germany (5 guys, but only 1 blade)
- checked into the hostel in mossel bay; just an old train rebuilt as hostel, which is parked close to the beach
- went out to see some sights, not that much, cause Mossel Bay is to ZA sth. like Palma de Mallorca for Germany (it will get very busy here tommorow, cause the sa summer holidays (2 months) will start on friday)
- as i wrote, met heelgard from sa, and we will head out to a club/bar
And especially just for you, loaded up all pictures i´ve done the past 4 days ;) Enjoy them as i did ...
Tommorow i will go to Oudshorn in the great black mountains (which is said to be the most beautiful mounty landscape in za) and probably going to sandboard the biggest dune in sa (350m)
Have a nice day and prepare for your weekend, i have to do too ;)
lg Sven
Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2010
Wine, wine, wine and even more alcohol ...
Hey girls and guys at cold home and any reader on this world!
Before you read anything, i´ve made a way for free internet in the hostel :D So don´t mix up the times i´m speaking about now. It´s tuesday evening, not wednesday morning :D (even i thought of posting it, tommorow)
My second Update i already wrote last evening at the hostel after drinking some bears, so don´t search for all my faults. I know i did a lot :D
When you read this maybe i´ve been murderd in the townbship i get to today. Its calles Lugan! 350.000 people living in those shrinks you know from colered tv, i think that will be an impression for live. I think i will take some pictures to get you kind of thinking about it.
Or maybe, if you reading this in late afternoon, i will be on tour to my next hostel in cap alghuas, which is the most southern part of south africa. Not Cape Hope like many people think (maybe i´ve already told you :))! Enough about my plans for today, lets talk about the past days!
If you have checked out my last post in this blog carefully, you maybe realize, that i´ve disorder my plans a little bit. On Monday we did our wine tour like we´ve planed, we that were Owen (Aussie), Riff (American), ??? (a girl from Canada), Marion and me, but fully on our own. We got to Stellenbosch, one of three villages in the big Winery Area in Western Cape. We planned to rent some bikes in the centre of Stellenbosch (which is the centre of the wine route too) to get to the winerys and do some wine tastings. But all bikes were booked out. But the guy in the tourist information got a really lucky information for us. He told us to get a special winery, Delvere, where we got 5 MTBs. The special thing about this winery was, that they built a trial for biking the really huge winery along all those winehills (Check out the pictures). There was also a trial section through the woods and at the and an impressive downhill section. Getting through all the hills was very hard, but everyone reached the destination, the first winetasting at the start of our tour. It took us almost 2 hours to get through the hills (and dirt). Our first wine tasting was really good, cause it was a reseller of all wines around Stellenbosch, so they got all the best wines from there. A winetasting here is really cheap; you can try from 4 to 6 wines for only 10 to 20 Rand (approx. 1€ to 2€). So you can get drunk for nothing :D. Most of the wines are red ones, but i´ve got only white ones for me (which are most times sweeter then the red ones), but unfortunately no rosés. After that we got to lunch, and again we were really lucky. There was a little "restaurant" (which was more like an old building with nothing in it), where an old south african native women did all her cooking on her own, Little old mamas kitchen. We took 4 different meals (quite all the meals on the card :D) and switched it to taste everything we ordered. It was that delicious, you can´t imagine. And as you know, i´ve got a good taste :)) Don´t laugh i really i have! It was a pie with chicken in it, a special za lasagne, a duck pie and beef mixed up with curry and mint ;) For dessert we had a cheese cake, a chocolate cake and an apple tart. OMG, remembering all things things gets me hungry instantly. After that, we got to the Laibach winery, a winery founded by a german family, which was very impressive to me, cause we sold those wines in our LIDL-Stores on christmas (for about 20€). The landscape around those winery got me thinking about staying here for years, when i get older.We will see :D. Our last tasting was on an english winery, very impressing buildings, but actually no wines for me. So we got back to our starting point, in the car, driving to Paarl (Paarl Pinotage, maybe the best known wine from ZA), looking for another tasting and eating some goatcheese, but it was allready closed, damn. On the night, we got out for a stand-up comedy near the hostel, very funny, but hard to understand. But after to much beer i fall asleap very good :D
On Tuesday as you know, i planned to go to the townships, but it was Marions last day in ZA, and she hasn´t been on table mountain. And because of the good wheather (no clouds, about 34°C in the shadow), we got up there, with Jose Maria (a tourist guide from Spain, a basqué native, working in Mallorca :D). Again an amazing tour! The sight was incredible. We were hiking on the mountain about 2hrs. After i got back to the hostel, i decided to end the day on the beach, because it was to hot to do anything. It was a bit windy, and the atlantic ocean really cold, but i had a nice time there. It was really funny, because there where some germans lying next to me. Two girls and later a guy who talked all the time about how much the earn and spent the last nights. I suppose they were from munich, haha. But it was getting better though. On every beach in ZA, their are some balck guys who wanna sell you some icecream, coke or water for refreshing (you may rememeber Mallorca, but here, there is asking you one of this guys maybe after 5 minutes to buy anything. So the little german group asked for some beers, and of course the guy wanted sell them one. They ordered six bottles of Savannah Dry (a cidre) that can be bought everywhere, for about 5-6 Rand. On the beach i would pay about 20R maximum (cause i don´t want to transfer it into Euro everytime, i tell you the you now the approx. transfer rate, which is about 1 to 10). Now the funny part. The guy came back after about 20 minutes wiht a horrible story, telling those arrogant tourists, that there wasn´t any savannah at camps beach anywhere (you have to know, that there is on bar and store after another), so he had to tell a guy, to buy it in sea point, which is quite far away. So they have to pay 250R for the driver (who was standing next to him) and about 360 R for the beers (60R for a bottle, for those of you who can`t count :D). Of course the got into arguing, about how expensive this is, but after a while they really paid the ammount of 600R. OMG! I mean, how stupid can a tourist be, it wouldn´t describe them correctly. How got the even out of their homes with getting injuried. They allready reached ZA. Man, i laughed my ass off (on my mind), this could only happen to those damn munich schickerians (don´t know how to say this better in english :D). But they must feel like staying at home, even if its a little warmer then there.
Afterwards i got back to the hostel, attending a street parade with over 25k people, suited in funny clothings. It was a charity run, but actually it was more than drinking on the streets then running. Btw., drinking on the streets is prohibited everywhere in ZA. Be carefully about that, i´ve you plan a stay in za ;) If you want do so, you have to go to the townships, where it is allowed. A little bit contraproductive as i think, because the biggest problem in the townships is drinking. I´m glad to go there on wednesday with a social worker from belgium, Shelly who is also staying in the hostel. Lets see what is expecting me tommorow. Probably i can visit Robben Island, the former prison Nelson Mandela was sent to, during the time of Apartheid. I don´t want to leave this town either, but i´ve got to move on, cause there is so much to see and visit in za. I hope to tell you soon, where it got me on my route to Jo´berg (nobody says Johannesburg). Maybe my next posting will be a little bit more critical, cause there are some things, i complain about now already. So don´t forget i´m remembering all of you.
Your plesant, Sven. (Uggh, that was formely, don´t take it serious :D)
PS: I know this isn´t the best way (who cares after 3 months), but here is my new south-african cell phone number 0799-417493 (Vodacom=Vodafone)! Please take care of it and don´t use it to often :D
Before you read anything, i´ve made a way for free internet in the hostel :D So don´t mix up the times i´m speaking about now. It´s tuesday evening, not wednesday morning :D (even i thought of posting it, tommorow)
My second Update i already wrote last evening at the hostel after drinking some bears, so don´t search for all my faults. I know i did a lot :D
When you read this maybe i´ve been murderd in the townbship i get to today. Its calles Lugan! 350.000 people living in those shrinks you know from colered tv, i think that will be an impression for live. I think i will take some pictures to get you kind of thinking about it.
Or maybe, if you reading this in late afternoon, i will be on tour to my next hostel in cap alghuas, which is the most southern part of south africa. Not Cape Hope like many people think (maybe i´ve already told you :))! Enough about my plans for today, lets talk about the past days!
If you have checked out my last post in this blog carefully, you maybe realize, that i´ve disorder my plans a little bit. On Monday we did our wine tour like we´ve planed, we that were Owen (Aussie), Riff (American), ??? (a girl from Canada), Marion and me, but fully on our own. We got to Stellenbosch, one of three villages in the big Winery Area in Western Cape. We planned to rent some bikes in the centre of Stellenbosch (which is the centre of the wine route too) to get to the winerys and do some wine tastings. But all bikes were booked out. But the guy in the tourist information got a really lucky information for us. He told us to get a special winery, Delvere, where we got 5 MTBs. The special thing about this winery was, that they built a trial for biking the really huge winery along all those winehills (Check out the pictures). There was also a trial section through the woods and at the and an impressive downhill section. Getting through all the hills was very hard, but everyone reached the destination, the first winetasting at the start of our tour. It took us almost 2 hours to get through the hills (and dirt). Our first wine tasting was really good, cause it was a reseller of all wines around Stellenbosch, so they got all the best wines from there. A winetasting here is really cheap; you can try from 4 to 6 wines for only 10 to 20 Rand (approx. 1€ to 2€). So you can get drunk for nothing :D. Most of the wines are red ones, but i´ve got only white ones for me (which are most times sweeter then the red ones), but unfortunately no rosés. After that we got to lunch, and again we were really lucky. There was a little "restaurant" (which was more like an old building with nothing in it), where an old south african native women did all her cooking on her own, Little old mamas kitchen. We took 4 different meals (quite all the meals on the card :D) and switched it to taste everything we ordered. It was that delicious, you can´t imagine. And as you know, i´ve got a good taste :)) Don´t laugh i really i have! It was a pie with chicken in it, a special za lasagne, a duck pie and beef mixed up with curry and mint ;) For dessert we had a cheese cake, a chocolate cake and an apple tart. OMG, remembering all things things gets me hungry instantly. After that, we got to the Laibach winery, a winery founded by a german family, which was very impressive to me, cause we sold those wines in our LIDL-Stores on christmas (for about 20€). The landscape around those winery got me thinking about staying here for years, when i get older.We will see :D. Our last tasting was on an english winery, very impressing buildings, but actually no wines for me. So we got back to our starting point, in the car, driving to Paarl (Paarl Pinotage, maybe the best known wine from ZA), looking for another tasting and eating some goatcheese, but it was allready closed, damn. On the night, we got out for a stand-up comedy near the hostel, very funny, but hard to understand. But after to much beer i fall asleap very good :D
On Tuesday as you know, i planned to go to the townships, but it was Marions last day in ZA, and she hasn´t been on table mountain. And because of the good wheather (no clouds, about 34°C in the shadow), we got up there, with Jose Maria (a tourist guide from Spain, a basqué native, working in Mallorca :D). Again an amazing tour! The sight was incredible. We were hiking on the mountain about 2hrs. After i got back to the hostel, i decided to end the day on the beach, because it was to hot to do anything. It was a bit windy, and the atlantic ocean really cold, but i had a nice time there. It was really funny, because there where some germans lying next to me. Two girls and later a guy who talked all the time about how much the earn and spent the last nights. I suppose they were from munich, haha. But it was getting better though. On every beach in ZA, their are some balck guys who wanna sell you some icecream, coke or water for refreshing (you may rememeber Mallorca, but here, there is asking you one of this guys maybe after 5 minutes to buy anything. So the little german group asked for some beers, and of course the guy wanted sell them one. They ordered six bottles of Savannah Dry (a cidre) that can be bought everywhere, for about 5-6 Rand. On the beach i would pay about 20R maximum (cause i don´t want to transfer it into Euro everytime, i tell you the you now the approx. transfer rate, which is about 1 to 10). Now the funny part. The guy came back after about 20 minutes wiht a horrible story, telling those arrogant tourists, that there wasn´t any savannah at camps beach anywhere (you have to know, that there is on bar and store after another), so he had to tell a guy, to buy it in sea point, which is quite far away. So they have to pay 250R for the driver (who was standing next to him) and about 360 R for the beers (60R for a bottle, for those of you who can`t count :D). Of course the got into arguing, about how expensive this is, but after a while they really paid the ammount of 600R. OMG! I mean, how stupid can a tourist be, it wouldn´t describe them correctly. How got the even out of their homes with getting injuried. They allready reached ZA. Man, i laughed my ass off (on my mind), this could only happen to those damn munich schickerians (don´t know how to say this better in english :D). But they must feel like staying at home, even if its a little warmer then there.
Afterwards i got back to the hostel, attending a street parade with over 25k people, suited in funny clothings. It was a charity run, but actually it was more than drinking on the streets then running. Btw., drinking on the streets is prohibited everywhere in ZA. Be carefully about that, i´ve you plan a stay in za ;) If you want do so, you have to go to the townships, where it is allowed. A little bit contraproductive as i think, because the biggest problem in the townships is drinking. I´m glad to go there on wednesday with a social worker from belgium, Shelly who is also staying in the hostel. Lets see what is expecting me tommorow. Probably i can visit Robben Island, the former prison Nelson Mandela was sent to, during the time of Apartheid. I don´t want to leave this town either, but i´ve got to move on, cause there is so much to see and visit in za. I hope to tell you soon, where it got me on my route to Jo´berg (nobody says Johannesburg). Maybe my next posting will be a little bit more critical, cause there are some things, i complain about now already. So don´t forget i´m remembering all of you.
Your plesant, Sven. (Uggh, that was formely, don´t take it serious :D)
PS: I know this isn´t the best way (who cares after 3 months), but here is my new south-african cell phone number 0799-417493 (Vodacom=Vodafone)! Please take care of it and don´t use it to often :D
Sonntag, 5. Dezember 2010
9500km - from Dresden to Cape Hope
Hello to everyone in Germany and any follower in the world, here´s my first Update. Unfortunatly the wifi-connection isn´t that good on weekends, so there will be not that much photos. But i´m sitting in a nice café (The Mojito) enjoying a good breakfast and well, i´m fine, just to answer your probably first question :D
The journey to ZA startet with the estimated adventure. Getting early enough up to get my train to munich in Dresden, i arrived at the main station, just to see, that nearly every connection was cancelled. Woohoo! 30cm fresh snow and about -10°C did their job very well. But what i´m telling you ... :D
For my fortune (or my bad luck, we will see) there was one connection that wasn´t cancelled, a Regional Express to nuremberg. So i started hunting after the train and got on it, just a minute before it pulled out. After sun rised up every passenger saw a fantastic landscape. Fresh snow, blue sky and trees covered by snow like you want to have on christmas. But as we got to reichenbach, something curios happend. The train stopped instantly in the nowhere between two small villages. Nothing happend, lights went out and it was getting cold inside. Hmmmm...?
After about half an hour the locomotive driver told us over the speakers, that the machine was broken down and we have to get out of the train instantly. There will be a train, that is taken us back to reichenbach, where we have to look up for a new connection. Sensationell! Deutsche Bahn as we know it ...
So we headed out of the train, waiting in the snowy prairie for the announced train. You can imagine i wasn´t really prepared, cause why take a big winter jacket to south africa :D Well, but things went on and we got back to reichenbach where another train was waiting getting us to Hof. In Hof they got an extra train started for us, getting us to nuremberg. But if you think, things getting better now, you´re acting amiss. Someone really intelligent tried to get over the rails between hof and nurenberg, stumbeled and was gahtered by a passing train. Congratulations!
So it took us about 3hrs to get to nuremberg and the first time i worried about getting in time to munich. But lucky as i am, the ice to munich started 10 minutes after we arrived in nuremberg. So i got to the airport about 3hrs later, just 15 minutes before the cloakroom (where you give up your luggage) closed. The flight was delayed for one hour, but i got it, nothing more counts :)
The flight was really good, without any turbulences. I admit that i was the only one who got light evening meal two times, cause i was very hungry. But montezumas revenge hitted me instantly :D Damn, thats why i got no sleep and was arriving really fucked up!
And then the first shock. It was raining cats and dogs in capetown. Not the weather i expected :D But everything went on really easy. I went from the airport getting my car in cape town, a new Kia Seranto (built 2009) with mp3-radio. Whooohooo! Just bought some cds which will accompany me through za. But there are some good radio-stations too, e.g. Big Five FM playing house music all day long, even songs (fidget, rave, electrotrash) you will never here in germany on any broadcasting radio channel. South african people have a really good music taste :D
After i got something for lunch i was driving around, just to acclimatise driving on the the left side of the road, which worked really good. Just to get you envy, i have to tell you, the price for gas here. Its about 60 cents per liter. Please don´t try to imagine my style of driving, i don´t want you to sorrow about me more then you do already :D
First i visited the university of cape town looking up for the possibility to study here and what shell i say, they got a really impressive business school. Lets see, if i can solicit to it ;)
Then i got to my hostel, booking a single room for three nights. I just did this to get a good sleep, to rest a little bit, after this hard journey which got me about 40hrs awake. Its the oldest and only awardwinning hostel in cape town, which is fully booked every night. So i was lucky again :D
In the afternoon i had two alternatives. Falling asleep or doing my first trip. Of course i took the second choice. And what do you do if you visit cape town the first time. Going up the table mountain, visiting waterfront or heading to the beach? Of course not. You drive to simons town looking up the penguins colony :D
Penguins are the most lovely animals in the world and it was exciting to see them in real nature (when i load up the pictures and videos i took, you will understand me). The manager of the hostel told me a really nice route getting to cape peninsuale. So i got to cape hope and visited the nature reservate there, seeing baboons, oystrichs and antilops in wild life. Getting back to cape town i drove an amzing street along the coast (just look up the pictures). Unfortunatly the battery of my camera got out of energy, so i couldn´t make a picture of the most incredible sunset i´ve ever seen, but if i say sth. like this about a sunset, you can truly believe me ;)
In the evening i met all the other guests in the hostel, and well, instead of going to bed early, we drunk a lot of beers and wine :D I dont know, if it is a good sign, but the first drinking song i learned in my life was an australian one :D
"He´s a bastard and true blue, trying to get things through and through, ..." But at one a clock i was that wasted, i fell asleep and sleept about 11hrs, ugggh.
Yesterday i just walked around cape town central, doing a little bit sightseeing and getting some things arranged. I visited the town hall, v&a waterfront, the cape town worldcup soccer stadium and getting through hundreds of shoppingmalls just to get an imagination of this beautiful city. The architecture isn´t that good. The skyscrapers in downtown aren´t that beautiful, but around every corner you can find hidden treasure of the dutch colonial time, this connection is simply amazing. I also visited the aquarium of cape town which was really big and amazing too. Unfortunatly there was no tigershark ;)
On the evening i had my first "braai", the south african version of a bbq, and after some glasses of wine, we headed out to "Obs Festival". "Obs" just stands for Observatory, the student area of cape town. We, that were marion, verena and me. Two nice girls from Munich and Mayence (mainz), that are unfortunatly leaving this week. But they told me a lot of spots to visit in south africa, aside the tourist guide routes :) We got back at one a clock, but i didn´t wanted to go to bed, so i got the "Fiction". I think, many nights in this club will follow ... :D
So thats what i did on my first days here, tommorow i will take a wine tour and on tuesday i want to go the townships, of course guided ;) After that, i will give you a new update, probably with some photos :)
I think the text is long enough for the moment so i will finish at that point. I already got a south african simcard, but no telephon number. I will tell you, after i did my RICA-Aggrement.
Best regards to everyone, Sven!
PS: Forget everything i wrote about uploading-issues, i´ve reached it! Just check out the dia section and click it. There are no descriptions to the photos till now, but maybe i will add it the next days ;)
The journey to ZA startet with the estimated adventure. Getting early enough up to get my train to munich in Dresden, i arrived at the main station, just to see, that nearly every connection was cancelled. Woohoo! 30cm fresh snow and about -10°C did their job very well. But what i´m telling you ... :D
For my fortune (or my bad luck, we will see) there was one connection that wasn´t cancelled, a Regional Express to nuremberg. So i started hunting after the train and got on it, just a minute before it pulled out. After sun rised up every passenger saw a fantastic landscape. Fresh snow, blue sky and trees covered by snow like you want to have on christmas. But as we got to reichenbach, something curios happend. The train stopped instantly in the nowhere between two small villages. Nothing happend, lights went out and it was getting cold inside. Hmmmm...?
After about half an hour the locomotive driver told us over the speakers, that the machine was broken down and we have to get out of the train instantly. There will be a train, that is taken us back to reichenbach, where we have to look up for a new connection. Sensationell! Deutsche Bahn as we know it ...
So we headed out of the train, waiting in the snowy prairie for the announced train. You can imagine i wasn´t really prepared, cause why take a big winter jacket to south africa :D Well, but things went on and we got back to reichenbach where another train was waiting getting us to Hof. In Hof they got an extra train started for us, getting us to nuremberg. But if you think, things getting better now, you´re acting amiss. Someone really intelligent tried to get over the rails between hof and nurenberg, stumbeled and was gahtered by a passing train. Congratulations!
So it took us about 3hrs to get to nuremberg and the first time i worried about getting in time to munich. But lucky as i am, the ice to munich started 10 minutes after we arrived in nuremberg. So i got to the airport about 3hrs later, just 15 minutes before the cloakroom (where you give up your luggage) closed. The flight was delayed for one hour, but i got it, nothing more counts :)
The flight was really good, without any turbulences. I admit that i was the only one who got light evening meal two times, cause i was very hungry. But montezumas revenge hitted me instantly :D Damn, thats why i got no sleep and was arriving really fucked up!
And then the first shock. It was raining cats and dogs in capetown. Not the weather i expected :D But everything went on really easy. I went from the airport getting my car in cape town, a new Kia Seranto (built 2009) with mp3-radio. Whooohooo! Just bought some cds which will accompany me through za. But there are some good radio-stations too, e.g. Big Five FM playing house music all day long, even songs (fidget, rave, electrotrash) you will never here in germany on any broadcasting radio channel. South african people have a really good music taste :D
After i got something for lunch i was driving around, just to acclimatise driving on the the left side of the road, which worked really good. Just to get you envy, i have to tell you, the price for gas here. Its about 60 cents per liter. Please don´t try to imagine my style of driving, i don´t want you to sorrow about me more then you do already :D
First i visited the university of cape town looking up for the possibility to study here and what shell i say, they got a really impressive business school. Lets see, if i can solicit to it ;)
Then i got to my hostel, booking a single room for three nights. I just did this to get a good sleep, to rest a little bit, after this hard journey which got me about 40hrs awake. Its the oldest and only awardwinning hostel in cape town, which is fully booked every night. So i was lucky again :D
In the afternoon i had two alternatives. Falling asleep or doing my first trip. Of course i took the second choice. And what do you do if you visit cape town the first time. Going up the table mountain, visiting waterfront or heading to the beach? Of course not. You drive to simons town looking up the penguins colony :D
Penguins are the most lovely animals in the world and it was exciting to see them in real nature (when i load up the pictures and videos i took, you will understand me). The manager of the hostel told me a really nice route getting to cape peninsuale. So i got to cape hope and visited the nature reservate there, seeing baboons, oystrichs and antilops in wild life. Getting back to cape town i drove an amzing street along the coast (just look up the pictures). Unfortunatly the battery of my camera got out of energy, so i couldn´t make a picture of the most incredible sunset i´ve ever seen, but if i say sth. like this about a sunset, you can truly believe me ;)
In the evening i met all the other guests in the hostel, and well, instead of going to bed early, we drunk a lot of beers and wine :D I dont know, if it is a good sign, but the first drinking song i learned in my life was an australian one :D
"He´s a bastard and true blue, trying to get things through and through, ..." But at one a clock i was that wasted, i fell asleep and sleept about 11hrs, ugggh.
Yesterday i just walked around cape town central, doing a little bit sightseeing and getting some things arranged. I visited the town hall, v&a waterfront, the cape town worldcup soccer stadium and getting through hundreds of shoppingmalls just to get an imagination of this beautiful city. The architecture isn´t that good. The skyscrapers in downtown aren´t that beautiful, but around every corner you can find hidden treasure of the dutch colonial time, this connection is simply amazing. I also visited the aquarium of cape town which was really big and amazing too. Unfortunatly there was no tigershark ;)
On the evening i had my first "braai", the south african version of a bbq, and after some glasses of wine, we headed out to "Obs Festival". "Obs" just stands for Observatory, the student area of cape town. We, that were marion, verena and me. Two nice girls from Munich and Mayence (mainz), that are unfortunatly leaving this week. But they told me a lot of spots to visit in south africa, aside the tourist guide routes :) We got back at one a clock, but i didn´t wanted to go to bed, so i got the "Fiction". I think, many nights in this club will follow ... :D
So thats what i did on my first days here, tommorow i will take a wine tour and on tuesday i want to go the townships, of course guided ;) After that, i will give you a new update, probably with some photos :)
I think the text is long enough for the moment so i will finish at that point. I already got a south african simcard, but no telephon number. I will tell you, after i did my RICA-Aggrement.
Best regards to everyone, Sven!
PS: Forget everything i wrote about uploading-issues, i´ve reached it! Just check out the dia section and click it. There are no descriptions to the photos till now, but maybe i will add it the next days ;)
Montag, 29. November 2010
Introducing ...
... my new Blog.
I hope you will enjoy and follow numerously. So lets take off ...
On thursday i will take the train to munich, which will probably be the most difficult part of my journey. Crossing the "Weißwurstäquator" is always connected with a very hard shock in culture. But possibly i will see the first wild animals and can meet some natives in there natural habitat.
Also the means of transport are very risky. Sorry to all who will sorrow about that, but i didn´t had it on my mind, when i booked careless as ever. Yes i will go by the "Deutsche Bahn" even under this hard circumstances you all can see outside your windows. I look forward and hope to get my car in south africa, which will be much safer as any public transport in germany i think, asap (das heißt übrigens "as soon as possible"; gewöhnt euch schon ma die wichtigsten Abkürzungen an! ich hab ni immer so viel zeit).
After i´ve fought me through the bavarian jungle (dont laugh, solche kreationen müsst ihr ab jetzt öfter über euch ergehen lassen), i have to get from the main station in munich to the franz-josef-strauß-airport. Sorry, but this joke is on my mind now for hours, so enjoy my first video, many will follow:
Ugggh, anyone who can follow me after this? Now lets try, i`ve reached FJS, don´t know how, but i did. The departure of my flight is scheduled for 17:15 (GMT+1). Now, everybody who has ever flew with me, realizes in seconds, that this time is not feasible. Not because of me arriving late, but because of some technical difficulties or some wheather issues or just a drunken crew, who missed leaving the P1 early enough in the morning to get their liver dry enough to do what it takes to fly the plane (in this case i could help and fly it on my own, but i´ve payed enough money to get myself a chance on the "bar waggon"). Well, i still hope we will take off on thursday, but i`ve already booked a night in munich, just to be sure getting a restorative sleep (i hope you´ll remind when i ring you out of a bed, Lorenz!!!).
In the really unplausible case, we will take off in time, the flight to the paradise will end after about 11hrs in Cape Town. This means we will land at 5:15 on friday.
...zzzzzzz... .
Now everyone who can count from one to ten, and two more (u see i can), realizes that there is a little time shift. I will switch to the time zone that is just one hour eastern to your time zone (GMT+2 also known as warsaw time), and that means i will celebrate new years eve one hour earlier. Please remind this, when i gonna call you (you know i won´t :D), but also remind it in any case you want to call me! Beeing one hour earlier out to party, doesn´t mean, i will leave one hour earlier ;)
After clarifying this, some other interesting facts about my stay:
Ohh, i think this is a good moment to explain, how to receive all news in time: JUST CLICK THE LINK! It will feed the RSS-Feed of your email-client (like thunderbird or google buzz or outlook) automatically. If you want to connect with facebook or Twitter, you have to sign up (don´t know if anybody wants). StudiVZ is not supported. But you can also bookmark this page.
Now, you all have did this, i can leave calm and and sure, you won´t miss anything about my journey. I hope to find the time to put up much more long textes as this one, maybe one or two will be in german too (just for my (grand-)parents :D) and many, many pictures and vids. All this Media can be found everytime on the bottom in the Video Bar and Dia Section which is connected to my picasa- and youtube-account. Feel free to comment anything you want, discuss among each other and tell me if there are some interesting changes in your life. Though i will miss you, maybe this feedback will get me easier back to you...
thx and see you soon!
PS: Don´t get a cold! I´ve heard there will be a hard winter in europe ...
I hope you will enjoy and follow numerously. So lets take off ...
On thursday i will take the train to munich, which will probably be the most difficult part of my journey. Crossing the "Weißwurstäquator" is always connected with a very hard shock in culture. But possibly i will see the first wild animals and can meet some natives in there natural habitat.
Also the means of transport are very risky. Sorry to all who will sorrow about that, but i didn´t had it on my mind, when i booked careless as ever. Yes i will go by the "Deutsche Bahn" even under this hard circumstances you all can see outside your windows. I look forward and hope to get my car in south africa, which will be much safer as any public transport in germany i think, asap (das heißt übrigens "as soon as possible"; gewöhnt euch schon ma die wichtigsten Abkürzungen an! ich hab ni immer so viel zeit).
After i´ve fought me through the bavarian jungle (dont laugh, solche kreationen müsst ihr ab jetzt öfter über euch ergehen lassen), i have to get from the main station in munich to the franz-josef-strauß-airport. Sorry, but this joke is on my mind now for hours, so enjoy my first video, many will follow:
Ugggh, anyone who can follow me after this? Now lets try, i`ve reached FJS, don´t know how, but i did. The departure of my flight is scheduled for 17:15 (GMT+1). Now, everybody who has ever flew with me, realizes in seconds, that this time is not feasible. Not because of me arriving late, but because of some technical difficulties or some wheather issues or just a drunken crew, who missed leaving the P1 early enough in the morning to get their liver dry enough to do what it takes to fly the plane (in this case i could help and fly it on my own, but i´ve payed enough money to get myself a chance on the "bar waggon"). Well, i still hope we will take off on thursday, but i`ve already booked a night in munich, just to be sure getting a restorative sleep (i hope you´ll remind when i ring you out of a bed, Lorenz!!!).
In the really unplausible case, we will take off in time, the flight to the paradise will end after about 11hrs in Cape Town. This means we will land at 5:15 on friday.
...zzzzzzz... .
Now everyone who can count from one to ten, and two more (u see i can), realizes that there is a little time shift. I will switch to the time zone that is just one hour eastern to your time zone (GMT+2 also known as warsaw time), and that means i will celebrate new years eve one hour earlier. Please remind this, when i gonna call you (you know i won´t :D), but also remind it in any case you want to call me! Beeing one hour earlier out to party, doesn´t mean, i will leave one hour earlier ;)
After clarifying this, some other interesting facts about my stay:
Ohh, i think this is a good moment to explain, how to receive all news in time: JUST CLICK THE LINK! It will feed the RSS-Feed of your email-client (like thunderbird or google buzz or outlook) automatically. If you want to connect with facebook or Twitter, you have to sign up (don´t know if anybody wants). StudiVZ is not supported. But you can also bookmark this page.
Now, you all have did this, i can leave calm and and sure, you won´t miss anything about my journey. I hope to find the time to put up much more long textes as this one, maybe one or two will be in german too (just for my (grand-)parents :D) and many, many pictures and vids. All this Media can be found everytime on the bottom in the Video Bar and Dia Section which is connected to my picasa- and youtube-account. Feel free to comment anything you want, discuss among each other and tell me if there are some interesting changes in your life. Though i will miss you, maybe this feedback will get me easier back to you...
thx and see you soon!
PS: Don´t get a cold! I´ve heard there will be a hard winter in europe ...
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