3-5 August 2019
Cape Town

Pants is not adventurous at the best of times and with the addition of man flu, the pace necessarily slowed at this point

We spent a couple of days exploring Cape Town- the cable car was not working and he is always worried about getting knifed (not sure why) so table mountain was out, as was my desire to go take a look at a township. Also time was required to do a bit more shopping to replace lost items

Thus we began with breakfast, at Hemelhuijs (hemelhuijs.co.za) which I can very highly recommend


I started with tea, pants a latte- it is a good job he doesn’t work in hospitality as his latte art is terrible!



can’t remember what the old boy ordered but I went for the yogurt pannacotta, which was really good


After this we went for a walk up to/around Bo Kaap




Followed by a walk through Cape Town to take in some street scenes on the way to the District 6 museum






We made our way to the V&A waterfront with an intention of taking a trip to Robben Island. Turns out it’s booked out days-weeks in advance so we simply booked tickets for our return. Book in advance if possible!!



on the way back I spotted Somerset Hospital which has a fair bit of history especially in the fight against HIV/AIDS




Cecil Rhodes statue, a reminder of one of my coworkers who was very into him!!

Nelson at City Hall


A spot of Australia-style statue modification




The next day on the way to breakfast we spotted what seemed to be a movie being filmed, with New York style props such as hot dog stand, taxi and USPS mailbox around