George Bernard Shaw's crash course on SA.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa) | March 20, 2009 | Copyright

BYLINE: Muriel Rubin

Passing by a second-hand bookshop in Muizenberg after an early morning swim, a photo of none other than George Bernard Shaw caught my eye. Fashions may change but the joys of bathing in Muizenberg are constant.

There was the 80-year-old Shaw, in his bathing suit, sampling the joys of that delectable swim of all swims. Whether he was thinking about the water's temperature or contemplating the next episode of the novella he was writing, we will never know.

But to see the indomitable, bearded old Irishman paddling in the sea, ...

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