Drinking and Driving!
Well after a fantastic time in Tanzania and a great New Year in Zanzibar we finally started our travels for real. We flew from Dar Es Salaam to Jo’Burg and after a night in Jo’burg we flew down to Cape Town .
We spent a few days in Cape Town and had a great time. Felt fantastic to be sitting on top of Table Mountain , having a drink and watching the sun go down. Thought of you guys back home having a cold January and starting back to work, HA! The views are amazing especially where the cold mountain 
air meets the warm sea air and you get a fog literally “dripping” off the cliffs. Definitely worth a visit if you are in Cape Town.
Also went to an apartheid museum in “District 6” of the city. This used to be a slum area that was inhabited by mainly black families. The government at the time decided to pull down this area, claiming it was for hygiene reasons, and moved all of the residents to Townships outside the city. These racially segregated areas were just as crampedand uninhabitable. They pulled down all of their old homes and they planned to use the land for ‘white’s only’ facilities as it was in such a prominent position!. These people had been living in an area in the middle of the city where they worked and socialised and were now 20 or 30 miles away. I was even more shocked to discover that this only happened in 1966. It seems so recent for something like this to have happened.
Anyway after a few days in one place doing serious stuff it was time to move on! We decided to hire a care and drive from Cape Town to Jo’Burg as the roads are good and we could come and go as we pleased without having to worry about time tables. We hired the cheapest care available, which turned out to be a mark 2 VW Golf. This style of Golf are still made in SA and so it was brand new. It was really cool to be driving around in what looked to be an old classic!
Our first day “on the road” was short lived as we drove to the wine region.
As I said enough of the serious stuff bring on the wine drinking….. er . . .I mean tasting, of course! Anyway 3 vineyards later (in the Franchoek area for those of you in the know!) and several tasting sessions to the good I decided that most of the wine in SA is pretty tasty. We had our favorites but I just can’t remember what they were called (must be all those tasters!). Sitting amongst the amazing scenery, drinking good wine in the sun will be one of the highlights of SA and defiantly something we (especially Ellie!) would like to go back and do more of.
We spent a few days in Cape Town and had a great time. Felt fantastic to be sitting on top of Table Mountain , having a drink and watching the sun go down. Thought of you guys back home having a cold January and starting back to work, HA! The views are amazing especially where the cold mountain 
air meets the warm sea air and you get a fog literally “dripping” off the cliffs. Definitely worth a visit if you are in Cape Town.Also went to an apartheid museum in “District 6” of the city. This used to be a slum area that was inhabited by mainly black families. The government at the time decided to pull down this area, claiming it was for hygiene reasons, and moved all of the residents to Townships outside the city. These racially segregated areas were just as crampedand uninhabitable. They pulled down all of their old homes and they planned to use the land for ‘white’s only’ facilities as it was in such a prominent position!. These people had been living in an area in the middle of the city where they worked and socialised and were now 20 or 30 miles away. I was even more shocked to discover that this only happened in 1966. It seems so recent for something like this to have happened.
Anyway after a few days in one place doing serious stuff it was time to move on! We decided to hire a care and drive from Cape Town to Jo’Burg as the roads are good and we could come and go as we pleased without having to worry about time tables. We hired the cheapest care available, which turned out to be a mark 2 VW Golf. This style of Golf are still made in SA and so it was brand new. It was really cool to be driving around in what looked to be an old classic!
Our first day “on the road” was short lived as we drove to the wine region.
As I said enough of the serious stuff bring on the wine drinking….. er . . .I mean tasting, of course! Anyway 3 vineyards later (in the Franchoek area for those of you in the know!) and several tasting sessions to the good I decided that most of the wine in SA is pretty tasty. We had our favorites but I just can’t remember what they were called (must be all those tasters!). Sitting amongst the amazing scenery, drinking good wine in the sun will be one of the highlights of SA and defiantly something we (especially Ellie!) would like to go back and do more of.
posted by Ellie and Adam at
3:34 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home