Park Inn Greenmarket Square Cape Town

... of hot breakfast we wanted. Since I developed a food hangover from dinner the night before, I just stuck with the cold breakfast. Amy enjoyed the standard South African hot breakfast which included eggs (any way), sausage, bacon, grilled tomato, grilled mushrooms, and toast. Similar breakfast to what we got at the airport in Jo'burg, and as we would find out, same across the rest of our stay in the country.

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... inside their enclosure so catching them to put them in boxes so you can clean their pen is interesting. I had built a fort of cardboard boxes to try and contain them and it worked for 2 of the 4. the others didn't want anything to do with me and hissed and lunged. Boy was that fun. What was even more fun was trying to open the cage to get them back inside. I got two bites from that bit of fun. They keep saying the pelican ...

... hot. Most of the route was made of large stone steps that challenged your heart and quads. There were several other people climbing the same trail. We had been warned by many that the trails on Table Mountain were unfortunately plagued by thefts. We followed the standard advice and brought nothing of value other than my small camera, but there was no time that we were unsafe. I understand that on the trails less travelled there is more of a risk. On ...

... line, wonder of wonders.

The next day we departed by coach for an all day trip to Cape Point. Cape Town occupies the northern part of the Cape Point peninsula and the city faces in a northerly direction. We headed South and followed the coastline which has to be one of the most spectacular for it's ...

I wrote most of this in a lovely moleskin notepad given to me by the lovely Chris and Maeva by Bird's pool in Houts Bay enjoying some down time from the enfant terribles Finlay and Alfie who were off at school. Reading it back it looked like a load of pretentious **** so I figured I'd throw that version away and just witter on as usual. The first thing I noticed about Houts Bay was that the wildlife are not quiet by nature. I seemed ...

... I am a little sad for them they missed the northern tour because it was very different and a little more exciting in my opinion. Diego Suarez was more of a touristy city with a little more happening. Unfortunately, prostitution became very evident the remainder of the trip. There are a lot of sexual tourists in the Northern part of Mad. A very sad and disgusting part of the economy that they are apparently trying to fight, although it is still legal. Everywhere there are signs that ...

... We started the visit with a wonderful lunch at a little place called the Plaas Huisie (Farm House) and we could not have asked for better weather, clear blue skies, low 30's and a slight SE breeze. Jamie and Monique being the fantastic hosts that they are prepared a wonderful braai for us at their home in Blouberg . Jamie as always was not shy with ...

... put out the parachute...(the camera guy fell about another 1,000 feet) The wind was strong that day and we landed in the bush a good distance from the place. Oh yeah, and Meg and I skydived in our socks, because they told us our crocks would fly off. So yes, I can say I've skydived in South Africa in my sock and landed in the bush. So after that, we decided to teach me how to drive a stick shift (I have never driven a stick shift before and what a ...

... deal of space in the front yard. As we walked, Neo taught us how to shake hands, with a clasp like you would use in a handshake, followed by connecting the thumbs so that each of your four fingers are free to snap, and then each twists his thumb and forefinger against the other one so that the four fingers create a second snap. We talked about his school and what subjects he has (students in the townships take a life orientation class, in which they learn about ...

... and increased water temperatures are. Anyway, back to the exciting stuff. We started the chumming process, and were still chumming with no results about 40 minutes later. We were about to leave to find another area, when , Brian who was sitting on the mast at the back of the boat yells out that he sees a shark approaching on the next swell. All of a sudden, the shark was circling the boat - an (apparently) small 3 meter Great White. He took our breath away. Then he ...