Saturday, July 3
Cape Town, RSA
Our previous drives to Hout Bay and to the Cape of Good Hope had left a small stretch of the Cape Town peninsula that we hadn’t seen. After sleeping off the previous night’s wine and writing some postcards (though no one appears to use regular postal mail service in South Africa – that was a struggle, our lovely hosts Carol and Richard took the hassle on for us! Thanks guys!), we headed to Muizenberg with Claire for brunch at Knead. There are some super famous changing shacks there for surfers and swimmers. And Knead is a gorgeous refurbished building, as well. From there, we drove the rest of the way of our missed loop around the Cape up to Chapman’s Peak, through Hout Bay to Camps Bay. We stopped at roadside (really, cliffside) stalls for some crafts shopping, but didn’t buy anything. We were in Camps Bay in time for the day’s first game so we went back to Sandbar. We got to watch the Germany-Argentina 4-0 blowout and have sundowners (finally, proper sundowners – drinks in hand, with a view of the setting sun). We also did some more shopping, buying a handmade soccer ball from Vida. Our loop of the Cape now completed, we drove over the mountain pass back to Claire and Alistair’s house for wine and some Ben time! We walked over to their neighborhood pub, Caffe Verdi, for dinner and the late Spain-Paraguay game.
Muizenberg:
Changing rooms:
View from Chapman’s Peak:
Josh, J & Claire at Chapman’s Peak:
We noticed how buggy our car got after our road trip while we were here:
Sandbar at Camps Bay:
Our Sundowners:
Enjoying drinks and the game and the view:
Camps Bay at dusk:
