After a long delay and many postponements, I finally got on the flight to Cape Town, to visit my old school friend and meet his family. It's been some 22 years since we last met, so we had so much news to catch up on. I had the privilege of meeting his family and reconnecting with his siblings who also moved from Harare to the Cape in the late 90's.We took time to remember (and fill his wife in on...) the old days, back in Harare when he and some others would get up to some mischief like "inadvertedly" locking the art teacher in a store room.
Cape Town is beautiful! We took a drive through the wine country on Monday (14th). Really spectacular scenery. Hope to go to Table Mountain before the week is through, but only if the weather clears. We have a cold frontal system on t6he coast and it's raining right now. My friend has spoken about a trip to Robben Island, but I get a little worried when one uses the words, "send" "away" and "Robben Island" in the same sentence. It will be great, though, to see the famous Island - again, if the weather improves. Took some pictures of the mountainous wine country, but now the stupid thing won't switch on so I have to take it to the nearest Pentax dealer to have it sorted out. I neeeeeeded the break and I'm glad I came - this is an astonishingly beautiful city. So if you are thinking of coming to Africa: consider Cape Town!
Went to the Two Oceans Aquarium yesterday. It was a real treat considering I come from a landlocked country with no aquarium (unless of course you consider the fish tank we had at home - the one where Taco the cat came up with the plan of drinking up the water to get at the goldfish.) We have our game parks and our Wildlife sanctuaries that give us an opportunity to see Leopard (when they show up at night) and lion, zebra, elephant et al in their element, living their lives.But for me, the aquarium was really spectacular: I saw jagged edged sharks swimming next to Blue Rays and a wide range of the most colourful sea life - wow! I just couldn't understand why they scoffed at my rather brilliant idea (yes brilliance shows up even on holidays) of adding a few more creatures to their great facility. I thought these would really boost the rating of the place. So you can imagine how suprised I was to be almost run out of the Two Oceans Aquarium for simply suggesting that they make a tiny introduction of two lovely Blue whales to their fantastic facility.
