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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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a comb, but with none in stock, I decided to walk a bit further
over to the 7-11 on Vredehoek and Buitenkant streets, where I found one for
R2.99/US40c (walking back to the B&B, I also stopped along the way to use
the payphone down the street from the KwikSpar to call home).
With the RMS embarkation set for 11:00am (though I wanted to arrive
early) there was plenty of time for breakfast this morning, and while
preparing it, Kritz handed me an Afrikaans paper and asked if I could
understand any of it. Over breakfast, he talked again about how lazy some
blacks were, but when he saw the student violin I was taking with me to St.
Helena, asked if I would play a few tunes for the black handyman he had
working on his lawn that morning. Taking it out, I played a few quick tunes
for both of them before it was time to go.
Leaving for the docks at 10:10am, we arrived with plenty of time to spare
at 10:30am. In the building next to J Berth (by the RMS) plenty of cargo
was stacked high (including sacks of sugar), though at this late hour, it
was obviously not bound for St. Helena. There in the building, I met John
and Cecelia from the UK: John was a botanist probably in his early 60s, and
his friend Cecelia was a retired flutist who liked travelling to far-off
places, even at the age of 80. Kritz was curious to see what the ship was
like, but once embarkation started, his request for a look around was denied
(though it's quite possible to have a look on board if you arrange it
beforehand and don't ask to do it right before embarkation). Going through
a metal detector, I said goodbye to Kritz, and walked onto the ship.
On board the RMS, the first thing I did was try to find the cabin I'd be
staying in: C49. The cheapest rooms on the RMS are 4-person cabins, with
the next-cheapest being a two-person cabin... I managed to reserve
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
