Tag: hike

• A Lekker Time in Cape Town

  

  (*Lekker is an Afrikaans word that was used to 1) describe food as tasty or nice.  Now it’s been adapted as slang in other ways: 2) to comment about a woman who is fit/hot and 3) to express one’s feeling that something /someone is cool, sweet, dope; a basic word to express approval…summing up exactly…

  tkforrest

  February 4, 2018

  Cape Town, South Africa

  Anderson Paak, Beach, Bo Kaap, Boschendal, botanical garden, Bree Street, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, District Six, drought, Franschhoek, Green Market, hike, history, House of H, Kalk Bay, Khayelitsha, Langa, Long Street, Loop Street, market, neighborhood, Nelson Mandela, Old Biscuit Mill, Olympia Bakery, penguins, Robben Island, shopping, Table Mountain, township, vineyard, waterfront, wine tasting, Woodstock, YoungstaCPT

• Big Barbara Comes to Town

  

  On Friday, I was actually more excited to be in the airport itself than to be in the new city I’d just landed in.  Why?  I was meeting Barbara in just a half hour at the baggage claim!  She was flying across the pond to hang out for almost two weeks, and the first part of our…

  tkforrest

  May 6, 2017

  London, England, Oslo, Norway, United Kingdom

  Aker Brygge, city hall, columbia flower market, ferry, fjord, Folk museum, forest, hike, kew gardens, lamb, Nesoddtangen, Oslo, sculpture park, st james park, Sunday Roast, Tate museum, tea, tulips, United Kingdom, Viking, westminster abbey