Home sweet Kigali

We're back
South Africa was excellent, beautiful, hospitable, clean, cheap.....in short we had a fab time and will happily return on holiday again. Despite the obvious challenges faced politically and economically by people, there is a sense of hope and a journey being undertaken.
We did a small tour Cape Town - Coastal Route - Winelands - Cape Town, and didn't do all the things you are meant to, and enjoyed ourselves immensely.


Highlights include

being instrucuted to unbuckle our seatbelts while refuelling at Bujumbura - presumably we could run away faster if the plane blew up!!??

Township tour including a church visit on Sunday, shebeen (pub) and herbalist









whales at Hout Bay and Hermanus - we spent many hours sitting watching and trying to get the perfect "tail shot", but just really enjoyed watching the groups seem to play


Penguins at Boulders and Betty's Baai - stinky and comical.

Franschhoek wine tour - which culminated in a fantastic tasting session ay Lynx, and where I ate the best mussels ever

Belthazar's the largest by the glass wine bar in the world, great vibe, great food - we went once for drinks, and twice more to eat!

stayed at some fab places including The Wild Olive and the Head South Lodge and even went to a backpackers for one night just to determine we are no longer back packer material!

We shopped a l. o. t. even I was defeated in the end! But were mostly succesful in our quests for finding odd items, and I even got a hairstyle!

The only disappointing thing was the weather - it was unseasonably cold, windy and wet, every time we walked on Long street it rained! It cleared up by the Saturday and we got our first glimpse of Table Mountain which had been shrouded in cloud and rain for the previous week.