My Western Cape Holiday- Part 2 (my heart is starting to fall)

After making ourselves at home, (you must read yesterday’s post to catch up if you missed Part 1)

(for my knight that means checking that the television works, for me it is unpacking my bag…. how does it get so full? The fact is that I would rather have plenty of clothes to choose from, by day, mood and weather. I packed heels- a couple of pairs, in the hope that we would go somewhere snazzy. My “denim and takkies” knight did not think along the same lines)

we decided to take a drive. My knight was going to show me the some of the Western Cape!

He then realised that the entire time I had spent unpacking my bag, I had not touched his, and had the cheek to ask why I had not unpacked his bag? Huhh????? He was serious. Clearly we have not been on enough holidays for him to realise that I am not his packer or un-packer. Will need to work on that. He un-packed.  

We drove to Cape Town City, obviously we needed to get the major attractions out of the way! The first being Table Mountain. It is quite a site. Especially as those clouds start to come in and completely envelop it. They call the cloud cover a table cloth….. and it literally looks just like that. The streets up to that point all seem to be very narrow, and VERY busy for a Sunday. Eventually he managed to find the exact street we should go up…. to get to the foot of the mountain. As we start driving the road up, we notice people have parked their cars along the street. Apparently, there is quite a few hiking trails for people to do, not to mention the walk up would have been awesome exercise.

You have the opportunity to go up Table Mountain on a cable car, however when we looked at the queue’s that people were standing in, we decided that it might be a better idea to come during the week. (We never did though- something for next time.)

I took a couple of pictures from the foot of the mountain…..

From the foot of table mountain. Parked our car and had a look at the glorius view. We could smell someone having a braai, but it could have come from anywhere below.

Looking up at Table Mountain, in two different directions- because it is just huge. Look at my hair- completely lost any sense of style....haha.

 My knight and I then took a drive around Green point. I took some awesome pictures from above Green point Stadium. (U2 had performed there a couple of days before…. and if you all read my post about the concert in JHB, you know I was a little envious that I could not join the Capetonians).

Quite beautiful!

We drove around the coast line- through Clifton and Camp’s Bay. It was beautiful. (Didn’t really take any pictures there…. too busy looking at all the fancy cars, and beautiful homes.) I have never seen so many beautiful cars in one place (besides Miami) at one time. Restaurant and Cafe spots everywhere….. people (all tanned) enjoying good food, and cold drinks!  

Around Chapman’s  Peak…..we  saw so many cyclists. I would have looked like a “nana” on my ———mountain bike (Christmas present i never wanted) – but I think it would have been fun!

My Knight, thought he was going to take me somewhere very special, stopped at a place called the “12 Apostels”. It looked pretty glam. (One of those place that I could possibly have worn my heels at!!!) BUT when we walked our little tooshies upstairs to the hosts table, (a view of the ocean), she politely informed us that if we had not made a reservation, we were not going to be able to sit down. Of course we hadn’t!!!! We were holiday makers- taking it all minute by minute. Back to the car, and onto that coastal road. No cold drink yet!!!

We decided to start heading home- pretty exhausted after such a long day. My Knight said he had a perfect place to take us for dinner in Gordan’s Bay. In the harbour.

We sat inside- because honestly as hot as it was I could not handle the wind (THAT WAS ONE THING THAT SLOWED THE WHOLE FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE CAPE DOWN), my hair and a platter of seafood and garlic butter all at once. It was busy. It was loud, very LOUD! Especially for a Sunday afternoon….. a band was playing in a different section of the restaurant. (There were a couple of older tourists that were very unimpressed by all the noise, it was quite entertaining to watch. Although we couldn’t really chat about it….. too loud.)  

This was our view from inside….

Let me add- this restaurant seemed to have one toilet! And 500 patrons. Drinking! I was not excited about having to wee!!! 

That night we slept on the 15^th floor, with the sliding doors completely open. Guess what- not a single (No, nothing, not one!!!) mosquito!!! Read that post to know what i think about mozzies. It was absolutely glorious! AND even better- the bed was a King Size bed!!!  With a goose down duvet, I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. (Don’t get me wrong, I love cuddling and touching each other, BEFORE I go to sleep. When I am sleeping- I love that space.) My knight was not as excited about the King Size bed.   

At one stage in the night- I did wander whether the 16^th floor might be taken away with the wind, and we would be left clinging onto our duvets and praying!

I wandered that every night after too. (And was sure to wear decent pyjamas.)

Until tomorrow…..

xx