Tuesday, June 22
Cape Town, RSA
Claire, our friend and Josh’s classmate from MIT, met us at the airport when we landed. It was so good to see our old friend! We picked up our rental car and we followed Claire to her folks’ house. This was Josh’s first time driving on the left hand side of the road and it was so nice to just be able to play “follow the leader” and stay behind Claire. We quickly met Carol, Claire’s mom, and dropped off our bags. Claire took us to where Alistair (sooo good to see Alistair again too!) was already set up at the NeoAfrica tent FanFest near the waterfront. We met some of their friends and watched South Africa play France. They won (yay!) but sadly didn’t advance to the next round. Alistair and Claire took us straight over to Alba after the game to have drinks with a gorgeous waterfront view. Then we headed to Long Street for South African-style tapas at Fork. We had an AMAZING dinner with South African wine, ostrich and kudu. We walked down Long Street after dinner and soaked in the ambiance of the revelers, before heading into The Waiting Room, a bar with amazing views of Table Mountain.
Bafana Bafana:
Fork (photo taken a few days later):
Long Street Revelers:
Claire & Josh at The Waiting Room:
Tags: CapeTown, Claire&Ali
Again, great pix. I had Ostrich when I was in Australia once. I thought it was pretty good. Kudu is an ungulate and so I figure if it was eating good stuff it was probably good as well. Sought African wine is getting a good reputation.
The ostrich was great! It was really flavorful and the kudu was also tasty. We definitely enjoyed all the South African wine we tried while we were there.