Ted's Excellent Pictures Taken In Cape Town
South Africa - March 2016
Table Mountain (1073m), as seen from Kloof Street at Hoërskool Jan Van Riebeeck
My high school was never like this
Rose Street in Bo-Kaap (Muslim Quarter) - Lion's Head mountain in the background
Wale Street in Bo-Kaap - Signal Hill (or "Lion's Rump") in the background
Houses of Parliament (1885) with statue of Queen Vic in front
Cape Town is the legislative capital;
Pretoria is the administrative capital;
Bloemfontein is the judicial capital.
Johannesburg is the financial / commercial centre.
(Since 2005, it has been proposed that Pretoria be renamed Tshwane)
Statue of Jan Smuts (1870-1950)
Prime Minister 1919-1924 and 1939-1948
He is the only person to have signed both of the peace treaties ending the First and Second World Wars.
St. Martini
Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde, Kapstadt
(St. Martini? I'll drink to that)
Lunch break at Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital
Remember him?
Addis In Cape (Ethiopean restaurant)
In case you want to learn Amharic
Decorative umbrellas on the ceiling at Addis In Cape
Today's Headlines
Snoek = Pike fish
Mense = People
Windies = West Indies nat'l cricket team
Proteas = South Africa nat'l cricket team
(Protea = South Africa nat'l flower)
Two Oceans = Annual marathon around the Cape Peninsula
(Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
Just proving I was there
Biergarten Braai just getting started
Anywhere in the world, it's the same rule of thumb: the bigger the chef, the better the food
Next: Lesotho Semonkong and Maletsunyane
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