Cape Town Part One

On arriving in Cape Town we put our faith in the GPS and arrived in Durbanville, the home of Ken & Nancy Roux.

Their only mistake in the last couple of months was to chat to us in the pool at Twee Rivirien in the Kalahari and rashly offer their hospitality if we ever got to the Cape. Having taken over their house we put Ken to work on the Landrover and trailer (though I somehow managed to get involved as well, which wasn’t the plan!) whilst we took advantage of Nancy’s superb home cooking and used the washing machine until it put in an overtime claim!

Despite this Ken & Nancy gave us a tour of Table Mountain, Simonstown and Cape Point, a mix of stunning mountain scenery, Japanese tour groups, fishing harbours, the famous penguin colony at Boulders Beach and the breathtaking Chapman’s Peak Drive and more Japanese tour groups.

Thanks to Ken’s network of contacts we’ve had the trailer electrics checked, the Landrover fuel filler pipe replaced and thanks to his welding skills, bits that were hanging loose or cracked have been repaired and secured (I’m talking about the car here, there wasn’t much that even Ken could do for Angela!)

To give them a rest prior to a second onslaught of car repairs and domestic chores, we descended on Heike & Clint Evans and family in Somerset West. We’d last seen them, and their friends Simon and Lyn, in Autumn 2002 on a 4x4 safari along the Wild Coast of South Africa. They had also uttered those fateful words “if you are ever in the Cape Town area”

Clint and Simon’s attempts to dislodge us by pumping us full of South African schnapps and dusting off the old Landrover jokes failed and we squatted in Somerset West for 4 days. Whilst there we visited Strand beach and watched the board and kite surfers. Given the beautiful weather and the huge number of beaches it is no surprise that South Africans excel at outdoor team sports (with the exception of cricket, rugby and football of course).

To be continued…..