I haven't been posting much for the last 4 weeks, the reason is that we've been off on our travels once more, to the Southern Hemisphere again but a different continent this time, Africa!
We departed from Heathrow airport on a dark, drizzly and cold January evening and the next day landed in a sunny, bright and warm Cape Town, South Africa, having slept through most of the night passing quietly over the "dark continent". On the approach into the international airport (CPT) I was lucky enough to be sitting on the right side of the aircraft to get a good view of table mountain (see photo above) and a panorama of the entire city, a wonderful view!
It was the start of a 24 day tour of the Western Cape in which we would visit many different places, see old friends, laze around on white sandy beaches, see multitudes of birds and animals and drop into some stunning vineyards where we would sample some outstanding Cape wines! We were eager to get going and after a couple of stamps in our passports and a walk to the car park, we emerged into the African heat where our driver was waiting to take us to our first stop, Newlands, a leafy suburb of Cape Town and our first hotel.
Upon arriving at our hotel we quickly checked in and were shown to our room for the next five days; it was a nice room overlooking the hotel gardens (complete with giant tortoises) and with a wonderful view of table mountain itself (see above) The temperature was 28 degrees with a light breeze and having spent the last few weeks in seemingly continuous drizzle and grey UK skies it felt like a rebirth, we were keen to get out and explore and over the coming days that's exactly what we'd do, see more in part II
