Category Archives: Around the world
South Africa thoughts (part 2)
This is part 2 of my two-part collection of random thoughts from South Africa. Part 1 is here. Click on Read more for part 2.
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Tagged 2010, fifa, southafr, southafrica, worldcup
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South Africa thoughts (part 1)
I wrote a bunch of random and mostly disorganized thoughts about my trip to the World Cup. I will break them up in a two posts in order to avoid boring my readers too much. Hopefully someone finds them interesting. Click … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, fifa, southafrica, southafrica2010, worldcup
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World Cup photos!
It took a lot longer than I had hoped for due to unforseen technical difficulties, but I am finally done going through the ~1500 photos we took in the last couple of weeks, selecting and post-processing, and have posted them to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Egypt, fifa, mexico, photos, southafrica, southafrica2010, worldcup
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Uruguay vs Mexico
We lost 1-0 against Uruguay in a very tight match. Still enough to make it to the second round. We will be facing Argentina (again) in the Round of 16. The game was in Rustenburg, near Johannesburg. Getting there was … Continue reading
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Ruthless 7-0
Just got back from Portugal vs North Korea. The Portuguese don’t realize that the N. Koreans will be shot once they return home. Our female readers will be disappointed that the Ronaldo close ups will have to wait until I … Continue reading
Penguins at Boulder’s beach
A short drive away from Cape Town, Boulder’s beach is a national park in which you can see African penguins. Really nice.
Table Mountain
Overlooking Cape Town is Table Mountain. According to the pilot who flew us into town, the “most famous mountain in the world”. You can go up on a cable car for a great view of the city.
England vs Algeria
Great stadium and great turnout for the England vs Algeria game. As the tournament progresses, the vuvuzelas get (thankfully) quieter. It was a 0-0 in which the Algerians made the English look really bad at times. Photos from the real … Continue reading
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Cape Town
We arrived to Cape Town yesterday and went to the game. Today we took it easy and spent some time in the waterfront. Impressively beautiful city. Tomorrow we will do some real touristing.
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Tagged fifa, southafrica, southafrica2010, worldcup
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This one is not photoshopped
Look who I bumped into after the Mexico VS France match, right before flying back to Johannesburg… He came with his good friend Zinedine (I shit you not) but Zizou seemed a little upset and didn’t stop to have his … Continue reading
