Stupid o'clock start, so up at 5am & bus pick up at 6am!! Bus was one of those minibus things that holds 12 people & I had a nice bunch - 2 kiwis who'd spent 5 years living in Oxford, a british girl from Cardiff, a brit living in Perth and an old retired couple (he was german she was american), so we had a pretty good atmosphere in van. Stopped at a motorway services for breakfast around 8ish, then carried up through the Drakensburg mountains. Passed a b...

Travel day to today. Set my alarm for 6:30am as I had an 8:50am pick up to the airport. Unfortunately, I set it on my blackberry, which I realised is still on UK time - so 2 hours behind. Fortunately, the phantom door slammer and their entire extended family struck at 4am this morning and carried on until about 4:20, so not much chance of me sleeping in!!! Was a bit sad to leave Cape Town, probably have not done it justice, but I saw what I wanted to see, so I'm...

Bit of a nothing day today. Inevitably I got Porter Family holiday weather - was bound to happen sometime or other. So, it's cold, it's raining enough to be annoying and it's windy. Actually, it's not too bad. Had a glass of wine with dinner last night, got back to the hotel & pretty much passed out - honestly, one glass of wine & I'm fast asleep!! Then the phantom door slammer struck at stupid o'clock this morning - you know the one you always get in ho...

So, today I went to Cape Town Castle - I will now pause as all the Porter family either roll around on the floor laughing or roll their eyes in irony at me visiting a castle on my holidays - but I went. As I said yesterday, seriously, this is a fort not a castle, but it's a pretty cool fort and one of the oldest buildings left in Cape Town and probably South Africa. Picked up the free guided tour at 11am and had the walk around. Unfortunately, they were preparin...

Okay, so it's been a couple of days - sorry!! Saturday was a stay in bed & take it easy day. Got absolutely no sleep on Friday night - too much sun & this sodding ear infection & I was ready to get back on the plane & jack it all in!! Thankfully, was feeling better by the end of the day & Mr P texted and so we had a chat and the propsect of lounging by his pool & doing nothing but the odd spot of babysitting or visiting the occasional vine...