Cape Town & goodbye

Cape Town is just like Sydney - I kid you not. It is a little different. The cold wind blowing off the atlantic (even in the middle of summer)...the big bloody mountain (Table Mountain) growing out of the middle, and the massive slums that fringe the city aside.

The beaches are uncannily similar and the city itself is very modern and thrumming with a nice beat. We did all the touristy things (well we missed a couple) - we climbed the mountain,in a cable car (Josie was under duress), we did a city tour, we drove down to the cape of good hope and also visited the penguin colony (which was better than the seals, less smelly and they are walking comedians, well waddling comedians)...

We also celebrated Paddys Day in cape town - at a bar called....Drumrull please.....the dubliner. That was about as far from an Irish bar as you could get, no guinness, no irish music, prices set up for the special occasion - but of course the paddies crawled out of the woodwork and celebrated in usual green style and "kiss me I'm Irish" badges. We met a fairly rowdy bunch, one was called Mick - go figure hee hee, I gave him shit for that - but his mate wasn't called Paddy alas :(

The next day Josh shaved his head, obviously feeling betrayed that his hair would stand higher with every drink, and we would mock him for it. It was scary and wierd - to be greeted by that 1st thing in the morning makes you wonder if you are still asleep or have been abducted by aliens!

Josie also got gemstones into her blood - and we trekked all across the city to buy either a diamond, a tanzanite or a savourite. In the end, not finding anything - thank the budget - that suited. She did manage to find some lovely necklaces though - on the last day !!

We watched the seals playing in the harbour while shopping on our last night...we were very sad to be leaving Africa. A lovely place, and we saw bugger all really.... I hope we will be back one day, and it will not have lost its rugged charm !