I didn’t
have any plans for Saturday, besides sleeping in and checking out a place
called “I love my Laundry”. Some time before noon, Andrea texted me if I had
plans. We met at I love my laundry and spent the whole afternoon walking around
town checking out places and going to the movies! I love my laundry is a
wonderful place, I fell in love with it right away, but I will post about that,
when I actually did my laundry there!
We searched
for Café Mozart, a place supposed to be nice. Like many places here I didn’t
find it right away, even though I had passed it many times before. We had
freshly pressed juices and a delicious scone there. And we could sit in the
sun! It really is a nice place!
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| Clock Tower at V & A Waterfront |
Walking round
in the city isn’t that beautiful when the sun is shining like yesterday,
because you are always in the shade of the huge buildings. So we headed north
to V & A Waterfront. A place a lot like Pier 36 in San Francisco,
but with seals, not with sea lions. We wanted to go to Robben Island, the
Island in Table Bay, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 17 years (that’s
what the guide said, Wikipedia says 20 year – anyhow an incredible long time).
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| Seals |
To go there we should have booked a day in advance, so we changed our plans and
hoped spontaneously on a boat that took us round the harbour for half an hour.
Not so life changing after all, but we did see seals and had an amazing view of
Table Mountain, Lions Head and Signal Hill!
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| Lions Head with weather-changing cloud and Signal Hill |
The clouds were impressive, and the
boat guide told us, how you could tell the weather by looking at the clouds at
the mountains. See the cloud around Lions Head, that looks like it’s a chimney?
That’s the cloud that predicts that the weather changes and that rain is on the
way. And it was true: it started raining in the night and a huge rain-storm hit
the city in the morning. I wanted to hike up Table Mountain with my housemate
today, but the weather didn’t allow any movement outside of the house till noon.
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| Table Mountain from middle of the Bay at V & A Waterfront |
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