We were greeted in Cape Town with a torrential rainstorm, our first rain for months.
We enjoyed the superb hospitality of Suzie and Terry staying in their Century City Penthouse. The following day went and had breakfast on the coast and saw my first viewing of Table Mountain. Little knowing that in a couple of days I would be hiking up to the top in 32c heat. We reacquainted ourselves with the delights of modern living viz walking endlessly around the biggest shopping centre in Cape Town, trying to buy a Sim card, waiting for ages in a traffic jams, losing a credit card in the ATM and shopping in Woolworths. Life was a lot less stressful in the Namibian desert when you only had to concern yourself with scorpions and snakes..
During our week we managed to see a lot, Nikki was very familiar with Cape Town and its surroundings so together with Suzie and Terry she put together a comprehensive program. Climbing Table Mountain,walking to the edge of The Cape of Good Hope, and visiting the Winelands are must dos for any first time visitor. CT has the spectacle of Sydney and the weather of Melbourne .Without doubt it is a place to see and if one can adapt to the security issue it would be a great place to live.
Suzie and Terry really looked after us and shared all their favourite places such as World of Birds in Hout Bay, SeaPoint, and lunch of oysters and Lobsters at Waterfront, thank you.
Whale watching at Harmanos just down the coast was rewarding as we were fortunate to see at least a dozen frolicking and cavorting, their huge V tales obligingly stationary for the zoom lense.
Many months ago in Dubai our Danish friends Peter and Eva painted an almost unbelievable picture of their home in South Africa....its 45 minutes from Cape Town, it is located in a private nature reserve, the house is built on the beach, you can see whales and dolphins whilst lying in bed, the reserve has 24 hour security,it is close to some great vinyards.....AND....you can borrow it whenever you like!!! Well you know those Danes did not exaggerate one bit. They only forgot to tell how the house was inside...beautifully furnished with some wonderful paintings. We had a terrific week and saw baby seals (close enough to touch), whales and dolphins. I think we encountered one other person on the miles and miles of white sand beach in the whole week.
As luck would have it Suzie and Terry were invited to a wedding just up the coast and much to our excitement we were invited as well ( I love weddings). It was unusual for several reasons, the groom was in his 70’s the bride was 35, it was his 4th marriage, her first. The ceremony and celebrations were held on the beach, dress code was shorts and T shirt, and the weather was great which helped us to eat our way through the 10 course meal. It took days to recover.
We sadly left Jakkalsfontein on 27 October as we drove out of the main gate raindrops fell on the windscreen, the first since we arrived. We drove through some beautiful country on our way to River Song. We passed through ....... and ...... and ...... we arrived up in the ...... late afternoon to be welcomed by Suzie who migrates from CT to her hideaway in River Song for 4 months of the year. The little log cabin is tucked away on a hillside screened by bourganvillia and bottlebrush, her neighbours are the birds with Sunbirds dominating the alien bottlebrush the only sounds are nature, in the evenings it is the crackle and hiss of the log fire. We were treated like royalty by Suzie with scrumptious curries and stirfries and breakfasts al fresco on the terrace.
We enjoyed the superb hospitality of Suzie and Terry staying in their Century City Penthouse. The following day went and had breakfast on the coast and saw my first viewing of Table Mountain. Little knowing that in a couple of days I would be hiking up to the top in 32c heat. We reacquainted ourselves with the delights of modern living viz walking endlessly around the biggest shopping centre in Cape Town, trying to buy a Sim card, waiting for ages in a traffic jams, losing a credit card in the ATM and shopping in Woolworths. Life was a lot less stressful in the Namibian desert when you only had to concern yourself with scorpions and snakes..
During our week we managed to see a lot, Nikki was very familiar with Cape Town and its surroundings so together with Suzie and Terry she put together a comprehensive program. Climbing Table Mountain,walking to the edge of The Cape of Good Hope, and visiting the Winelands are must dos for any first time visitor. CT has the spectacle of Sydney and the weather of Melbourne .Without doubt it is a place to see and if one can adapt to the security issue it would be a great place to live.
Suzie and Terry really looked after us and shared all their favourite places such as World of Birds in Hout Bay, SeaPoint, and lunch of oysters and Lobsters at Waterfront, thank you.
Whale watching at Harmanos just down the coast was rewarding as we were fortunate to see at least a dozen frolicking and cavorting, their huge V tales obligingly stationary for the zoom lense.
Many months ago in Dubai our Danish friends Peter and Eva painted an almost unbelievable picture of their home in South Africa....its 45 minutes from Cape Town, it is located in a private nature reserve, the house is built on the beach, you can see whales and dolphins whilst lying in bed, the reserve has 24 hour security,it is close to some great vinyards.....AND....you can borrow it whenever you like!!! Well you know those Danes did not exaggerate one bit. They only forgot to tell how the house was inside...beautifully furnished with some wonderful paintings. We had a terrific week and saw baby seals (close enough to touch), whales and dolphins. I think we encountered one other person on the miles and miles of white sand beach in the whole week.
As luck would have it Suzie and Terry were invited to a wedding just up the coast and much to our excitement we were invited as well ( I love weddings). It was unusual for several reasons, the groom was in his 70’s the bride was 35, it was his 4th marriage, her first. The ceremony and celebrations were held on the beach, dress code was shorts and T shirt, and the weather was great which helped us to eat our way through the 10 course meal. It took days to recover.
We sadly left Jakkalsfontein on 27 October as we drove out of the main gate raindrops fell on the windscreen, the first since we arrived. We drove through some beautiful country on our way to River Song. We passed through ....... and ...... and ...... we arrived up in the ...... late afternoon to be welcomed by Suzie who migrates from CT to her hideaway in River Song for 4 months of the year. The little log cabin is tucked away on a hillside screened by bourganvillia and bottlebrush, her neighbours are the birds with Sunbirds dominating the alien bottlebrush the only sounds are nature, in the evenings it is the crackle and hiss of the log fire. We were treated like royalty by Suzie with scrumptious curries and stirfries and breakfasts al fresco on the terrace.
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