Our final day in Capetown started slowly with a late breakfast. We confirmed our late checkout and Mike pointed out the charging box that sits beside reception. Each box has its own key that you can take away when in use and inside are several different types of phone charging connectors, so that a phone […]
Capetown Day 3: City Tour and Cape of Good Hope
Abdul had organised a driver that contracts to the hotel, to pick us up at 9am for our city tour and trip to the Cape. He was called Mohammed and was a thoroughly nice chap who suggested a variety of things for the itinerary. First he took us to a suburb called Bokaap which has […]
Capetown Day Two: Wine Tour
For our second day Jen had booked us on a wine tour to the Stellenbosch area. We were collected by our guide, Rodney, who contracts to the tour companies and enjoys wines and wine tours. Also on the trip were a Singaporean couple and their adult daughter who is in her final year at university […]
Capetown Day One
Jen had encouraged us to book a trip to Robben Island if we were interested as the trips are booked up months in advance. Great advice (as usual). We were booked on the 11am sailing which meant plenty of time for breakfast. That was yum and everyone is so nice. Our tour also included a […]
To Capetown
We started half an hour later than planned at 6.45am as needed to phone Capetown to confirm our pickup from the airport. We had tried the previous night but forgot about the time difference so the Capetown office was closed. The road to Windhoek is sealed and straight. I mean 600km almost straight. As Wilfred says, […]