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Article: Gin and jungle oats Apartheid lives on, as Noah Richler saw in Durban, while Ruth Picardie, right, guiltily enjoyed a splendid colonial hotel nearby
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 14, 1995
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My initial impression was not, I am afraid to say, wholly
positive. The main entrance to the hotel is reached via a large car
park, as unbeautiful as can be. The strip of sandy beach on which the
hotel perches is liberally dotted with oil. Our roo ms were decorated
in that nasty hotel pinky-orange, with lots of nylon ruffles, and
smelt damply off-season. But I knew everything was going to be all
right when, rifling dismally through the dressing-table drawer, I
came across room laundry details from "Jeeves", who seemed to assume
that normal garments to be laundered would be "pyjama suits", "safari
suits (shorts)" and "safari suits (long)".
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