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    • Day 1 - Arrival in Luzern
    • Day 2 - Luzern
    • Day 3 - Bern
    • Day 4 - Last Day in Bern
  • 2015 Round the World (Pages in Progress)
    • 2015 Cuzco, Peru
    • 2015 Sacred Valley
    • 2015 Machu Picchu
    • 2015 To the Rain Forrest
    • 2015 Cayman Lodge #OffTheGrid
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 1
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    • 2015 Lima, Peru
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    • 2015 Krakow, Poland
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    • 2015 Bus Ride to Cambodia
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    • 2015 Floating City, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Siem Reap, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Sunrise
    • 2015 - Battambang, Cambodia
    • 2015 - Bangkok, Thailand
    • 2015 - New Zealand Bike Tour - Days 1 and 2
  • August 2015 Europe (in progress)
    • Day 2 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
  • Brazil - World Cup 2014
    • Argentina vs Swiss 2014 World Cup
    • Santos - The Lifeguard Study
    • Sao Paulo
    • More Santos and the BBQ
  • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bicycle Race
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Morning Session
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Afternoon Session
  • Africa Trip - February 2013
    • 2013 Days 15 and 16 Zanzibar
    • 2013 Day 14 Safari Ends
    • 2013 Day 13 Tarangire
    • 2013 Day 12 Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 11 Serengeti to Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 10 Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 9 - Drive to Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 8 - First Day on Safari
    • 2013 Days 5, 6 and 7
    • 2013 Day 4 Cape Town
    • 2013 Day 3 Cape Town
  • 2014 New Zealand - North Island
    • Auckland
    • The Drive to Napier
  • 2013 Baltic Countries
    • 2013 Valnius
    • 2013 Riga, Latvia
    • 2013 Tallinn, Estonia
    • 2013 Tartu, Estonia
    • 2013 Stockholm
  • Barcelona - April 2013
    • Dali Museum
    • Futbol Club Barcelona
  • Nature Valley Grand Prix - Stillwater, MN 16 June 2013
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  • 2014 Red Bull Crashed Ice
  • Birchwood Team 2016

Day 3 - Cape Town

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I’m calling today “Day 3” with Days 1 and 2 being travel days.  Monday evening I flew from Minneapolis to Amsterdam.   While still at the airport in Minneapolis, I learned the bad news that Brad “left” OC in Uptown.  The place is becoming way too corporate.

It was nearly noon Tuesday when I finally made it to Central Amsterdam.  Didn’t do much other than lunch and dinner, it was somewhat cold with some snow/sleet in the air.  I crashed early as I’m on the tail end of a cold and didn’t want to aggravate it.  Up early Tuesday for a 9:30 flight to Cape Town, an 11 plus hour flight.  Finally finished reading Dan Brown’s “Lost Symbol” on the flight.  Even being an 11 hour flight is was pleasant; I decided that KLM provides better service than Delta (not really a surprise).  Arrival in Cape Town was nearly 10 PM and it was just after 11 when I arrived at the hotel.  Killed about an hour catching up on the world before heading to bed.

I took a 2 hour hop on/hop off bus ride around town to get a lay of the land.  After the ride I wandered around V&A Wharf for a few hours, including lunch.  V&A Wharf is modeled after San Francisco and Sydney wharfs, maybe a little more here.  It’s only about a decade old, they did a good job.

 Lunch at a brew pub named Mitchell Ale House, it’s along the lines of Herkimer’s or Town Hall in Minneapolis but with better food.  Very reasonably priced, I had a sample of their 6 beers for 50 Rand and a pint of one of the better beers from the sampler for 27.5 Rand (about US$ 3 at 9 rand to the dollar).  Including a sea food platter I spent just under 200 Rand (just over US$20) including tip.  No, this is not an expensive city.

The ocean is amazingly blue, however, cold.  The winds are such that the water off the beaches is colder in the summer (now) than in the winter.  Surf boarders wear wet suits with the water temperature being in the 60’s degrees F.

Perhaps by the end of the trip I’ll have learned how to fix the light in the photos.

  I took all of the pictures, I own the copyrights. 

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