Suzen Collins Continues her South African Journey:
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, next to Johannesburg and the largest in land area. It is the provincial capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislative capital of South Africa, where the National Parliament and many government offices are located. South Africa has 3 capital cities, Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. Read more
Suzen Collins continues her South African Journey
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The Western Cape is also the southernmost region of the African continent with Cape Agulhas as its southernmost point, only 3800 km from the Antarctic coastline. The Cape of Good Hope is the westernmost southern point of the continent of Africa….very awesome! Read more
Suzen Collins writes of her South African Journey – Part Four
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Being in the southern hemisphere, March in South Africa is the beginning of fall and the weather was wonderful the entire two weeks I was there. The climate of the Cape is a Mediterranean climate, warm dry summers, and mild, cool winters with the most rainfall during the winter months. Temperatures during my stay were in the upper 70′s with a couple of days in the lower 80s. Read more
Suzen Collins continues her South African Journey
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Kalk Bay
One of the picturesque little coastal towns is Kalk Bay. Originally a fishing village, now Kalk Bay has a reputation for antique, arts and restaurants, and still fishing! Colorful fishing boats create an atmosphere of the old seaside with restaurants like the Brass Bell situated right on the water. Big open windows give a water vista that is romantic in the broadest literary sense. Read more
Suzen Collins continues her South African journey here:
After breakfast we drove over to Boulder Beach where there are Penguins! These South African penguins are sometimes called jackass penguins, apparently due to the sound they make. I got to see a baby being preen, all downy fur and grey next to the black and white adult. The penguins seem used to people as I got pretty close to them, although they stayed in among some scub bushes which seemed to protect them somewhat as long as we were close by. Read more
A few months ago, end of January 2011, I was starting to say a favorite mantra…”what do I want, what do I want, what do I want?” a bit disillusioned and searching – feeling slightly bored perhaps.
Then I am innocently talking to my friend Suzanne, as she prepared to go to South Africa, as she does once or twice each year, when she says, “if my green card doesn’t come in the mail before Allan leaves perhaps you will get on a plane and bring it to me and have a couple weeks holiday.”
A suspension of time and the thought dropped in as solidly as a stone…yes, I will do that I laughed…but it felt as though it were done.
I find that the times I am empty and seemed to not know what I want are the times something really big shows up. Sometimes I wonder if it is the emptiness that allows room for the new thing. Seems kind of obvious now that I write it!
Susan Collins, usually resident in St Petersburg, Florida, USA writes of her recent South African Journey – read her blog On the Road to ZEN here Read more
