I am writing this to take my mind off the huge seas we are plowing through off The Cape of Good Hope. I was up in the faculty lounge reading but it was so high up and so far foreward that we felt each wave personally! Down here in the cabin, although we are forward it isn't quite so obvious!
Our time in South Africa has been wonderful for me and very good for George too. Unfortunately our computers all went on the blink so doing blogs was out of the question. I'll try to tell you everything in one fell swoop.
On the first morning I met with three school friends and we chatted into the afternoon, drinking capuccinos and muffins to die for. We sat only a few hundred yards from the ship in a beautiful Waterfront mall. This was lovely to walk around although expensive ideal for window shopping. Also a great bookshop so you can iagine I went a bit wild in there!
The next day George and I got a taxi to the Garden centre where we usually stay when in Cape Town. it is built above a much more 'realistic' mall which is also familiar and comfortable....Shongololoites will remember! Then we walked slowly down Government Avenue watching the people, the birds, the flowers and just generally breathing in the sunshine and warmth. Frances I thought of you and knew you would have loved to walk with us. We went into the retaurant, sat outside and read our books drinking rooibos and listening to the doves cooing...such an evocative sound fo me.
That night we ate out at the Karibu restaurant at the Waterfront with Pamela a lone traveller on SAS. Pam is hoping to get her husband and adopted Vietnamese daughter on board before we call in at Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam so that her daughter Tami might meet her older sister for the first time since she was adopted at 8 years old from an orphanage. (She is now 19). Pam is working from the ship end and her husband in the States with the university of Virginia but they are running into numerous road blocks so we shall have to keep our fingers crossed for all of them. Dinner was great, I love to eat fresh fish in Cape Town!
The next day we went to Bokap, the historic 'Malay' Quarter of Cape Town on the slope of Signal Hill to learn about Malay cookery which we both enjoy very much. We visited a family's home and Mum (Soraya) taught us to make samousas, pakoras, roti and a Malay chicken curry which we then proceeded to eat wih our fingers. You aren't supposed to use your left hand (they areMoslem and consider left hand 'dirty' ) but i'm afraid i had to being very Left handed.
The following day we rented a car and had an absolutely gorgeous day, sunny and coolish, to wamder the Cape . We spent a few hours in Kirstenbosch. the botanical gardens which are world reknowned. The acres are set under Devils Peak and on hills but they are easy and picturesque to wander through.
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