South Africa: Last days in Cape Town

The first place in Cape Town was a little guest house at the northern part of Cape, with views over Robben Island. It was just next to the beach and had a massive swimming pool of 25 metres. The owner was a German who decided that he had enough of Germany and the cold. I have to mention that we got here after the wine route morning, so everyone felt sort of tired, nevertheless, I had a look at the beach, which was full of kite and wind surfers.

The next morning we started early and left to visit the cape of good hope, which was once believed to be the point where the Atlantic ocean meets the Indian ocean, later they found out this isn't completely true, but it doesn't take away the majestic views that you have once you are on the cape.
The cape also had a nice view over a little beach where the Portuguese used to come on land to take a little rest in their voyage to the far eastern lands.
On our way back to town we also encountered a little beach on which they claimed there to be penguins, so we decided to go and have a look. While dad looked for a parking place we went down to the beach, which was very, very crowded, though this didn't scare the penguins away, the reason being that there was a ranger with them when I found them, to protect the penguins from wild tourists or locals who would love to have their dream of swimming with penguins come true.

After the penguins we headed towards the last place where we would stay, a little BnB in the wind free zone of Cape Town, which is also known as the most expensive area to buy or even rent properties (that explains the massive amount of people who try to make a little more money doing a BnB or a Guesthouse).

So on our way to the BnB my dad's friend informed us that another friend of his had arrived at the Cape Town port with his catamaran, seeing how odd the chances of this where we decided to pay him a visit. We went to the Waterfront (which is the 2º biggest tourist attraction in whole South Africa) and on there, next to his boat we saw a big group of Sea Lions playing on the docks.
We had an interesting evening with a few beers and some wine glasses, and we agreed to see each other for dinner before leaving.

For dinner this evening though we had no idea where to go, everything we checked was fully booked, for the whole week! so we headed towards the centrum. There we entered a restaurant specialized in, yea, you guesses it: Steaks. But it was even more here, to our surprise we got no menu, as the only thing you could order was steak frite with salad, unless you where a vegetarian of course. Anyhow I have to say, yet again a lovely lovely steak.

And then it arrived: The last full day we would spend in South Africa, we got up early to get on the city sightseeing bus, what? isn't that something every tourist does??!. With the bus we got to the first stop we wanted to do: Cape Town's symbol: the table mountain, one of the new 7 wonders of nature, and not in vain, as it is impressive. Once at the top: which is 1026 km high we had a marvellous view over the whole city, we also saw why Cape Town is considered the perfect feng shui city (it has something to do with the town being surrounded by the 3 big mountains which make it sort of a chair )

We got down after an hour or two of walking on the mountain top and hopped back on the bus. My oldest sister got off at the stop close to he BnB because she was feeling unwell. After that we continued our city sightseeing. We continued towards one of the cities "townships", the wind free beaches and the lovely city centre, I have to say that I think Cape Town is amazing.
By the evening we got ready and headed towards the boat of my dad's friend. We managed to get a booking at a Belgian restaurant and once we saw the menu we bursted into tears: On the menu they had descriptions in Dutch, and these where so funny, for example, you had a rabbit stew, and the translation said: My neighbours cat drowned in "kasteel" beer (which is a strong Belgian beer often used in stews)