Day 9 Sun May 15th 2011 Well not too much happened today really was going to go out to somewhere called Blouberg strand to get a view of looking back towards Cape town & Table Mountain but the weather is very cloudy today so it's not worth going there. So we wander a shopping Centre & buy ourselves a cell phone. Then we get back & Gerts & he make up a Chicken poike Pot done on the Braai, it is amazing. We will defiantly be Braai-ing when we have o...

Day 6th Thur May 12th 2011 Treated ourselves to a lay in today partly because Dan was suffering with a hangover and partly because Trish still has a cold (we are the perfect traveling couple). So we decide to have an easy day & go down the V & A to have a bit of breakfast & then we go & visit the aquarium. We wander around & see all kinds of weird & wonderful types of fish. We go & watch the penguin feeding time & what we think wil...

Day 4 Tues May 10th 2011 Today is Gerts day off so he has some errands that he needs to run and wants to check out some schools so we can send some information back to Dan's dad about bringing more sports tours out here. So we start of by heading to the Spur restaurant, a guy Gert knows from he's rugby club is already there, we have breakfast and when we get the bill but it causes chaos because Gerts mate left early & didn't pay for he's breakfast, Gert refus...

Day 3 Mon May 9th 2011 Table Mountain Day!! We head into town via train (got dropped off at the 'safest' station). It is R30 return for both of us. This is not before Gert telling us stories about people getting robbed on train's (Erm..Thanks Gert)!! However we arrive in town 'safely'. Dan recognizes a roundabout (which turns out not to be difficult as there are literally hardly any roundabouts in Cape Town but good to know hes on the ball) & cafe that he wen...

Sun May 8th 2011 Day two has arrived we wake up at around 10am both slept straight through was shattered from the excitement of our first day. We find out it is South Africa's Mother's Day today so Happy Mother's Day Mummy Gail & Marion. Gert takes us through some of his photos. There are a ton of rugby photos and then some of when he was in the war down this way! He gives us a lift down to the V & A Waterfront which we find out is known as the Victoria &...