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Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:38 pm
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I think most professionals appreciate the work of amateurs but some do sneer. I recently read a funny tongue in cheek comparison of the two: "Amateurs designed and built the Ark; professionals th ...

Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:12 pm
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PS DylanC, You need not get it from Expedia, in fact if you hired the car through them they may well have already offered you this and you may have it. But check on their price if not , as they may we ...

Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:07 pm
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Thanks so much to everyone for your suggestions!

David - or anyone else who knows - what's a CDW excess policy? You're not teaching me how to suck eggs at all, I've never heard of it. I did my c ...

Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:33 pm
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I tried to find the autobiography of Smith-Dorrien, who escaped from Isandlwana and note that the part relating to this particular battle and Rorke's Drift is in the very first Chapter and may be view ...

Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:47 am
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Thanks Alan, I've read this before as the reason but is this the reason given at that precise time for leaving before daybreak one or is it an interpretation ascribed by historians or attributed after ...

Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:05 pm
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Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere on this forum - I have made a limited search. There is much debate surrounding what did and did not happen when Lord Chelmsford returned to the Isandlwana site ...

Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:56 pm
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Hello, depending on where you finally decide to stay you might consider something with higher ground clearance or short wheel base if hiring a car as some of the tracks are a bit rough. The main grave ...

Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:36 pm
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Tim, thanks. We missed the 140th, in fact we did not hear of it until we arrived there! I suspect we would not have managed to get accommodation at that time, but are sad to have missed such an import ...

Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:57 pm
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Hello All and thanks for letting me join this group. We've just got back from SA and the highlight was the trip to Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. We stayed at Rorke's Drift Lodge which I can recommend ...
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