Wonderful weather (^o^) and week-end at the beach!
Trip Start
Jun 29, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 31, 2008
Cape Town,
South Africa
Monday, July 14, 2008
Wooooow what a wonderful weather back over the tablecloth of Cape Town!!!! So what do you do usually when there is such a perfect blue sky??? Well, going to the beach of course!! So, on Sunday a colleague of my internship place invited me to go to her church and meet the rest of her family. What a vibrant experience, I have never assisted to such an active service. People standing up, singing, praising theLord, speaking in tougues etc. Really it was a fabolous experience, far from our half-empty cold churches struggling to attract more people. That is a cultural difference maybe...to go there of course we took a taxi, not the regular one, the REAL ones, small and noisy where half a dozen people are squeezed together. Really I enjoyed it! Service at 11.15 am until 2 pm and I met the rest of Kumbi's family. They are all Zimbabwean and I have to tell that such warm and friendly people are the best way to attract people to their home country, whatever the current political problems that may occur there with Mugabe. And you can learn a lot from them! so after a nutrirtous luch of Lay' crisps, juice and biscuits we began our walk from Sea Point to Beach Street, until the V&A Waterfront. We even saw a whale ery nearby the beach who was probably reaching for more sun like anybody else. The view on Table Mountain, Lion's Head and the Devil's Peak was just wonderful from that perspective. The sunset is even more impressive, I had never seen one on the sea actually. Do not forget that I come from a small region in the north-est of France where there is no sea at all, except a little river called the Rhine, so nothing to do with it! So, I let you enjoy the pictures from the waves, the sea, the ships, the ice-cream man, the pet-poo cleaner etc etc. To be honest, the Waterfront (as most of the people call it) is really my favourite place in the Cape, because it is nice and there are a lot of things to do, to see and to share with your friends there! an IMax cinema, a large mall, a traditional craft market where you can get typical African material, bars, Belgian restaurants, pubs, and so much more! OK, now I feel like having a big bowl of Morvite (a Sorghum porridge). I am really crazy on that stuff although it is not that much special. It just remembers me a lot of what I used to eat in France: semoule (kid of wheat porridge). It is so very nutritious and you can have it as a dink or as a poridge, with or without milk and blablabla (to be more South African...). Anyway, I will have to taste the Mealie Meal (local kind of flour), the Pap and other local meals!! So "Morro"!! (good bye in the Zimbabwean language, though I am not sure about the ortograph..).
