What a beautiful city!! 10 days in Cape Town was great - we had time to chill out, relax, wash everything that we owned and explore the city! Liz (a family friend of the Larcombes) played the very hospitable host lending us her car and playing guide. We hit the waterfront, went to Robben Island and Nelson Mandela's cell at the maximum security prison, lost our money at the Grand West Casino, spent a day out in the Franschoek wineries, explored Cape Point and the ...

Well, it's been a while... We arrived in Cape Town about 5 days ago and have been staying with a family friend of Penny's which is soooo nice. We've scrubbed and cleaned and finally smell like like roses again after managing to remove the months worth of grime that we'd accumulated! Cape Town's beautiful and I'm slowly getting used to locking the car door and driving around with the windows up so we don't get mugged at the robots (yes, ROBOTS! That's what these ...