Well Hi everybody

We arrived in Capetown on Thursday 4thFeb, after a very long flight, via Qatar, but the airline was very good & efficient....just long.
We arrived in daylight and were met at the airport by Tom, who brought us the scenic route into Simons Town. Beautiful drive.
The flat is lovely with the most fantastic view straight out to sea! I don't think I could have chosen better if I lived here!
Friday 5th
We went in Fish Hoek to pick up our car. John is very impressed with the Toyota Corollo, loads of room and huge boot space, (but I don't think those are the things that John admires!) Also bought a sim for my phone....oh what fun & joy....you have to register your details...it took 2 days!!Just for info or emergencies the number is 0768143622.
After lunch we had a walk to Boulders Beach from the flat.There is a large colony of Jackass Penguins living there.
We passed the local golf club on the walk....Danvers, the trees were horizontal!!
We bought some fish for supper called Yellow tail, we tink it may have been tuna, it was gorgeous.
Saturday 6th
We went to Kalk Bay. It is a lovely 'arty' place. Lots of galleries, bakeries, antiques etc. Really lovely atmosphere. Saw a quartet of black singers in a coffee shop, they were absolutely brilliant.
In the afternoon we went to Cape Point. It is part of the National Park that leads down to the Cape of Good Hope. Saw the meeting of the two oceans, Atlantic & Indian. It was a glorious day but with quite a wind down there, but fabulous for all the kite surfers, wind surfers and just surfers! When we got back to the carpark, a baboon was sitting in the driver's seat of someone's car!! He was eating all their food and drinking their lemonade!! He got extremely aggressive when someone tried to shoo him away!! And he was BIG!
We had dinner at a local seafood restaurant in Seaforth, right above the beach. I had more fish, this one was called Kingklip and it was fantastic.
Sunday 7th
We spent the whole day at Kirstenbosch botanical gardens. It rained for the first 45 mins, so we did the green houses and conservatory, but after that it was glorious. They are really spectacular gardens, there are sculpture gardens,herbal,a concert stage (Cliff Richard is playing in March) just a fab day out
The weather has been lovely, but not clear enough to do Table Mountain until today....but I will have to save that until my next blog, I have run out of time.

Lots of love to you all, especially Max,Ella, Angus,Theo and Dylan xxxx