Green Elephants, Kitesurfing & saying goodbye to Cape Town

I hit the road East tomorrow, down the Garden route, to Port Elizabeth for my final 10 days in South Africa. I travel with my dive buddy - Marcel, who's decided to take a week off & explore the country & Ressie (a fellow Stellenbosh wine taster) from Colorado who, like me has packed in work to travel.

The past week has rekindled my frustration with Kitesurfing, refresh my wine taste buds in Stellenbosh's vine yards & reset my travel plans for the next few months, as I reconsider my whats, wheres & whens.

I've been staying at the Green Elephant back packers in the Obsevatory area of CT. The area's a picturesque mix of students, locals & back packers nestled at the base of Table mountain. There's a plethora of Dutch here, mostly all on post grad internships or masters research projects. After considerable arm twisting Marcel's house mates managed to get me over to Braai(BBQ) & then out to Cool runnings for the odd cheeky beer. Here we are pictured enjoying a few Carling Black labels on the Cape peninsula's Llandodno beach (a far cry from it's Welsh name sake).



Franco & Sue invited me over to Braai with mum's cousin Jenny & friends Friday night. I have to say a big "thank you' to all the Viotti's for their kind hospitality whilst I been here in Cape Town, it's really made my time here memorable. Thank you one & all, I've had such a great time, & I look forward to repaying the generosity you've shown me one day soon, back in the UK.

My last night in CT was Sunday. Marcel & house mates joined me at the Kirstenbosch botanical gardens, where a series of open air concerts happen every week. I'd decided to make an afternoon of the event & arrived early to stroll around the gardens & chill out in the sun.



Finally a little bit of South African humour to make you smile :) -I saw this on the back of some labourer's van, as we stopped on a tour around Stellenbosch.