Tag: Travel
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Day 12: Graaff-Reinet part one
Even before arriving at Graaff-Reinet I wonder how anyone could ever have had the idea to settle there and to farm in the area surrounding the town none the less. From Port Elizabeth at the Eastern Cape it takes a three hours drive through the Karoo to reach Graaff-Reinet. A dry and waste land. Even…
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Day 11: Sardinia Bay again
Yesterday I did not only shoot photographs but also some video clips. And like last time in the Addo Elephant Park I did not finish editing until a day later – this morning. So, here you go: Day 11 features a 40 second clip about Sardinia Bay. —– Gestern habe ich an…
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Day 10: Sardinia Bay
Today’s morning trip was a hiking trail along Sardinia Bay. Drei Stunden Morgen- und Mittagwanderung entlang Sardinia Bay. Near Sardinia Bay in 1647 the Portugese Galleon Sacramento shipwrecked in a storm. An der Sardinia Bay erlitt 1647 die Portguisische Galleone Sacramento Schiffbruch. Here is an interesting Blog-Entry about it…
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Day 7: Riding the waves
Today’s trip brought me to Jeffreys Bay, a coast town at the Eastern Cape – with not yet 15.000 inhabitants a quite small one as well. But it is very popular with surfers because the long sandy beach with its clashing waves is one of the most famous surfing areas in the world. I…
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Day 5: Cars
If anyone had ever told me that some time I would write about cars and driving, I would have laughed and declared him or her a bit insane. But here I am doing exactly that. Driving in South Africa for me is bit of an adventure, after three days of simple refusal yesterday at…
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Day 3: Being rich
Being in South Africa for the first time in my life I do not only feel rich but I am rich. As a freelance journalist my income depends on my workload and since my boyfriend works full-time at university but actually is paid only half-time we are what might be described as academic-proletarians – having…
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Day 2: Four airports in 24 hours
Since I had a stop at four different airports in the last 24 hours I started to wonder whether you can draw a conclusion from an airport to its city or if airports do stand on their own with no comparison to the people living nearby at all. In Hamburg for example the staff…
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Day 1: Leaving Germany
Flight plan/ Flugplan The bags are packed and I am heading to the airport. / Die Taschen sind gepackt. Auf geht es zum Flughafen. Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel to London Heathrow, July 1st, 16:50 London Heathrow to Johannesburg, July 1st, 21:00 Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth, July 2nd, 11:10 Arrival Port Elizabeth: 12:50 See you in South Africa!
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58 Days South Africa
58 Days South Africa The day is getting nearer and the more I think about it, the more excited I become. On July 1st I will finally take my flight to Port Elizabeth in South Africa for a quite long holiday. If you could call it a holiday since I plan to write and…
Jessica Holzhausen - Writer & Artist 