Cape Town

We arrived in Cape Town on Monday after an 11 hour flight and headed to our hostel. The hostel was ok, we dumped our stuff and went to look around. We went to V&A waterfront which was really lovely.

We had a few drinks in the hostel bar which was like 80p a glass of wine (Amazing).

On Tuesday we went on a wine tour which was really good. We were drinking wine all day from about 10 am. We went to 4 different vineyards and tried about 60 wines. We were quite tipsy by the end of the day and carried on drinking in the bars on Long street with the people we had met that day.

Wednesday we had to change hostels as they were fully booked and the thought of carrying our heavy backpacks around looking for a free hostel was awful. Luckily the first one we came to had rooms and the Hostel itself was lovely. We sat by the pool looking on to Table mountain.

Thursday we went up Table Mountain in the cable car. The view was amazing, you could see the whole of Cape town then we went to a few Museums to try to educate ourselves a bit then had a look around the city and some of the shops.

Friday we went to the beach and sunbathed all day. The water was freezing but the weather was lovely and we got a bit of a tan.

Saturday we wet on Township tour which was so interesting, we went to some of the towns where the people live in little shacks made of wood. the children were lovely and loved having their pictures taken. We went into a pub which was basically a wooden hut and the men sat around drinking beer out of one giant pot which was shared around. It is so crazy how they live and how happy they all are.

In the afternoon we went to Robben Island to see the prison Nelson Mandela was in. It was also really interesting and we both learnt loads. On our way back we stopped and had a few drinks in a bar which later turned into a lot of drinks and ended up getting quite drunk.