We have had a week in Cape Town taking in the sights, and trying to shake the various colds and flus that have plagued our merry band.
We saw whales in the harbour.
We saw Table Mountain. I still haven't been up it. John and Luke went up. There were several things that we ran out of time for.
Adam got especially excited when he saw that they were discounting the English, I mean the English football gear.
The game. This was the quarter final, between Germany and Argentina. Germany won 4-0. I have decided that Australians are a good luck charm for Germany, helping them to score 4 goals, since when we weren't there they lost to Serbia and struggled against Ghana. How much will the Spanish pay us not to go to the semi final?
We spent a day on at the Stellenbosch wine festival. mmmm. It was exhausting, but luckily they provided big bean bags in the sun that we could nap on (while they brought us our wine tasters) after a big tapas lunch.
We also took a tour of the Cape, getting to feed ostriches, go on a boat trip out to a seal island, chat to the penguins, and see the Cape of Good Hope.
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'Here, to digress for a moment, is a little-known fact: one of the more dangerous animals in Africa is, surprisingly enough, the ostrich. Deaths due to ostriches do not excite the public imagination very much because they are essentially so undignified. Ostriches do not bite because they have no teeth. They don't tear you to pieces because they don't have any forelimbs with claws on them. No, ostriches kick you to death. And who, frankly, can blame them?'
- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
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