Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Cape Town
It's fair to say that we weren't looking forward to arriving in Johannesburg at 7am after a ten hour flight. I'd read numerous tales of horrendous immigration queues followed by an airport full of people waiting to rip you off in one way or another. It turned out to be OK, the passport control queue wasn't as bad as the one in Macau, and we managed to make our way through the terminal without any problems. In fact the only 'problem' we encountered was the fact that it's winter here, and it's bl**dy cold!After a short internal flight we eventually arrived in Cape Town. Most of the hostels do free pick-ups if you stay a few days, so we had a driver to introduce us to the city straight away. Even though the world cup is over we still seem to get into football conversations wherever we go, this time though we're talking about South Africa 2010, and Cape Town is already well into building work and road construction in preparation for the big event!
I definitely think we're starting to get lazy (or tired) because we're not quite so keen on cramming ridiculous numbers of activities into a few short days, so although we really enjoyed Cape Town we definitely didn't see all of it. It also didn't help that the arrival of cold weather (or the after effects of the Singapore air-conditioning) left us both with colds during our first few days here. Our only other excuse is slipping into the laid back lifestyle, it's not exactly 'Fiji Time' but there's definitely a temptation to get up late and not do too much!
The hostel we chose was only a few minutes walk from the V&A Waterfront, which doesn't exactly look like the typical image of Africa but is a great place to waste a few hours when you should be hard at work doing proper sightseeing!
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