On Friday morning Angus, Lauren, Rebecca and I made our way to Green Market Square to do a bit of souvenir (or curio as they call it here) shopping. Most of the stalls were item-for-item identical to another stall or ten in the market. Rebecca was a bit overwhelmed by the harassing way that they try and sell things to you, but she bravely fought through it and even managed to bargain the one guy down in price. That's my girl! We then went to see a statue that ...

Dear Diary, Hi. How are you? I'm fine. We've had two fantastic action-packed days here in Cape Town, but I shall start at the beginning. We arrived on Thursday evening after an uneventful flight, picked up our Mr Bean car and proceeded to drive around and around the car park looking for an exit, all the while mocked by our GPS either saying "recalculating" or directing us the wrong way down a one-way. Eventually we made our way out and the GPS did a much be...

The first leg of our journey has come to a close and I want to say a huge thank you to Uncle Allan and Aunty Faye for taking such good care of us. We had a fantastic time in Durban and saw far more than I thought we would and ate more than I thought we could! Let's hope there's a hill or two to climb in Cape Town to work off some of those delicious meals. Last night we went to a Thai restaurant for dinner and thoroughly enjoyed it. Rebecca accidentally ate a c...