Saint Helena

190th Anniversary of Napoleon’s Death

July 19, 2020

Today, the 190th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death on St Helena, was our first day in South Africa.  We commemorated the occasion with a visit to Groot (Estate) Constantia, just outside of Cape Town. One of the few pleasures Napoleon experienced during his six-year exile on St Helena was the Grand Constance sweet white wine …

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Remote St Helena

July 19, 2020

It’s the tiny white speck in the south Atlantic. Few places on this planet become more remote over time, but St Helena has.  In 1816, when Napoleon was exiled there, as many as a thousand ships a year called at the island.  Back then, before the Suez Canal, it was a stopover for ships from …

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