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Very detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world: Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena, as well as S. Africa, Malaysia and Singapore, and Indonesia. Very informative, full of tips, history, what it was like to visit and stay there, indexed by country. Visit my webpage for this and other downloadable travelogues: http://www.tcp.com/~lgreenf
These are fascinating islands. Tristan has only 238 people, all with same 7 last names.
Remotest Islands in World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S Africa Malaysia, More
Larry2006-05-27 03:40:04
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they were holding for me wasn't an FD mount lens -- and
thus, wouldn't work on my camera after all. The lady at the shop suggested
(at 4:30pm) going to their other location a few blocks away to see someone
about repairing my lens, so Judith and I walked to the other store. There
inside, we were told to walk just a bit futher to the actual shop where
Shaps sends equipment out to be fixed (Cape Camera Repair, in the Strand
Building at the corner of Strand and Long). Walking around the corner, we
entered the building and took the lift up to the repair shop... the
secratary took the lens to a technician to examine, and returned saying it
could be fixed by tomorrow for R320/US$40.51. Leaving the lens and camera
body off, we walked out hoping it would be fixed properly -- and by tomorrow
morning.
As it was hot, I told Juidth I'd treat her to an ice-cream (I wanted one
too), but not finding any in the area, we hopped in the car to drive out of
town at 4:45pm before the 5:00pm traffic began. Plastered up on poles in
the area was the newspaper headline that Laurent Kabila (President of the
DRC) had been killed... asking Judith about it (as I had been out of the
news lately), she told me there were conflicting reports, but that it seemed
he was assasinated.
Heading out of town, I spoke to Russell on the phone as Judith drove
(there's a new law in South Africa against talking on a cel phone while
driving)... Russell said to head to the False Bay Yacht Club, as when his
day job (working on PBXs) was done, he was supposed to help out a pupil who
wanted to sail in the weekly Wednesday evening race there. My original plan
was to treat Russell and Judith to dinner at the top of the Table Mountain
Cable Car, but I figured there still might be time to do both. Going
towards False Bay there was a bit of traffic, but with school
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Saint Helena Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
