Today was our full day winery tour which started at 8.30am :) I got up in plenty time to be able to have breakfast at the hostel in preparation! There was Simone, Sophie, Nicole, Phoebe and Sandy so it was a really nice group. We were going to the Stellenbosch wine region. First winery was Vergenoegd, which was famous for the ducks they used to eat the pesticides in the vines rather than using chemicals. We tried 8 vintage wines and 1 port here, all were really...

Well I slept until 9.30am! I really can't believe it. I'm preparing myself for partying down under with Adz :) 4 sleeps... or 3 sleeps in a bed and 1 sleep on a plane! Eak. I really need some cheap backpacking clothes and dresses, the shops I was in yesterday were all ridiculously expensive for hostel washing machines.. So I headed off on my own to the biggest shopping mall in Cape Town. The Canal Walk. I waited for the shuttle bus as a taxi was going to cost ...

Randa, Sam and I had booked a trip weeks ago for Robben Island Museum today. The ferry left the waterfront at 9am, so we got a taxi just after 8. I really can't think I've slept longer than 7.30am since the weekends at Brackenhurst. It was a very interesting morning,. we had a 45 minute bus ride around the island, seeing all 4 of the prisons and the local village on the island before visiting the maximum security prison. The guided tour of the maximum secu...

It was fantastic to get a comfy bed with huge fluffy pillows last night, I managed to sleep really well. We had an activity talk at 8am, after breakfast, on all the things that you could do in Cape Town and then we said our goodbyes to Adrian and Chris :( Today turned out to be a public holiday in Cape Town, which was annoying as I wanted to go to the post office and send things home by boat. Instead I took a wonder around the hotel after breakfast and re-pack...

Hmm what can I say, I barely remember taking down our tent this morning at 4.30am, possibly because I was still sound asleep while we did it, not because there might have been a trace of alcohol in my blood. The whole group looked like zombies, it was hilarious. Nobody got much sleep last night and I'm sure the truck must of stank of drink this morning. Everyone took their sleeping bags into the truck and found some random position to sleep, some people just st...