Today we had no real plans so decided to have some retail therapy. We drove to Canal Walk....the biggest shopping centre in southern africa where we hoped to get some souveniers but werent successful so decided to go back to the waterfront. Before going from one shopping mall to the other, we had a falafal that we had to gobble down as quickly as possible as it started disintegrating very quickly! After walking from shop to shop, we managed to find the south afr...

We were woken up by the bright sun shinning through the windows. It was nice to know the sun was back again and wouldnt upset our plans for the day like yesterday. We first visited the two oceans aquariam, where we saw some incredible sea creatures including sharks, turtles, sting ray, bull frog, fishes not forgetting nemo, and the cute penguins!!!!! We then went to Robben Island and had a 'great' history lesson!!! Learnt a lot about Rober Sobukwe and a littl...

We were woken up by the bright sun shinning through the windows. It was nice to know the sun was back again and wouldnt upset our plans for the day like yesterday. We first visited the two oceans aquariam, where we saw some incredible sea creatures including sharks, turtles, sting ray, bull frog, fishes not forgetting nemo, and the cute penguins!!!!! We then went to Robben Island and had a 'great' history lesson!!! Learnt a lot about Rober Sobukwe and a littl...

We had a bit of lie in this morning....woke up at 9am and had an early brunch at the restaurant in the backpackers we are staying at before heading to the waterfront to explore the shopping and eating area. And then we were supposed to have gone to Robben Island at 1pm but due to the pathetic weather conditions of strong winds it was cancelled so hopefully weather permitting we shall do it tomorrow. Again due to the weather we couldnt go up table mountain in the...

Had another earlish start....Fern from Africa Story picked us up at 830am. She was our driver, guide etc for the rest of the day. We had 7 other people on the tour: TJ, Lars, Connie, Stephan, Pascale, Vicky and Jill. We first started of with the most relaxed wine tasting of the day at Fairview where we were also had some cheese tasting session as well. Drinking commenced at 10am...jokes....all the wines seemed to smell the same by the end of the day. At the...