8 November 2010 - Hermanus

·        Next stop Hermanus – famous for whale watching. Didn’t disappoint

·        Awesome mammals – photos seriously don’t do it justice when they breach out of the water especially given they weigh about as much as 8 elephants!

·        Another coast walk back to the B&B

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7 November 2010 - Franschhoek

·        Hired bikes for the day – did a 33km round trip in the end

        

·        Rode to the prison where Nelson Mandela was ultimately released – didn’t realise that it was still a functioning prison though – and being Sunday, it was clearly visiting day when we arrived

·        Cycled back, stopping of for a recharge at Rickety Bridge Wine Estate – food and a bottle of wine down – we rode home

·        Despite being 5 star, our room was invaded by bees so we had to move in order for Clare to get any sleep that night!

6 November 2010 - Franschhoek

·        Headed off to Franschhoek for some wine tasting on the weekend

·        We stayed in 5 star B&B accommodation – apparently this was meant to be me paying Clare back for all those nights camping
·        Went out for a nice dinner and had a 5 course tasting menu – Springbok was the highlight

5 November 2010 - Cape Town

·        Table Mountain today and Cape Town turned on bright blue skies and sunshine

·        Having heard plenty about District Six from our Robben Island tour (our guide lived there and told us about life under Apartheid) we ventured down for a look around – pretty interesting

·        Had a lovely dinner out with Warren and Helen - Warren introduced us to Whiskey Dom Pedro’s – essentially a whiskey milkshake – nice!

4 November 2010 - Cape Town

·        Went to Robben Island – The maximum security prison where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 20 years of his 27 year sentence – probably one of the best tourist attractions I have been to in a while – the tour was led by an ex-political prisoner who was held there for 8 years

·        We then drove around to Camps Bay for a few sundowners on the beachfront

      

·        Drove home to Noordhoek via Hout Bay

3 November 2010 - Cape Town

·        Let the touristy Cape Town trips begin!

·        Cape of Good Hope (where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet) and Cape Point were first on the agenda. Brrrr – really windy.

·        Amazing coastline though, totally made up for it, as did the baboon on our return trip who opened a car door and stole a tourists backpack and preceded to open it looking for food

2 November 2010 - Travelling Day - Livingstone to Cape Town

·        Flight from Livingstone to Cape Town – this was a massive 7 hour journey (including the stop over in Jo’berg) – It could have been longer if it wasn’t for Clare bribing a South African airways employee with chocolate and managing to get us on an earlier flight!

·        Stayed with Warren and Helen – I used to work with Warren at GT in London and he has since moved home to Cape Town

·        Their house was huge with a beautiful setting – the mountain on one side and the ocean on the other. House came complete with a cute little cat called Mouse