We finally arrived in Cape Town, tourist (and legislative) capital of South Africa. We also visited the most-visited attraction in all of Africa\u2026 and you thought it was the pyramids! It\u2019s the V & A Waterfront. All my friends know about the Egyptian pyramids; none, until now, know about the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. The area has hundreds of shops and restaurants, the Two Oceans Aquarium, and, yes, a harbor.<\/p>\n
After checking out that, we finally went to our oceanfront flat, on Mouille Point. It\u2019s near a pool, playground, picnic area, and putt-putt course. We\u2019re near the Green Point lighthouse, which didn\u2019t prevent a shipwreck on July 1, 1966, during a winter storm. Speaking of winter, there are snowflakes on the light poles. And I\u2019m sure that Santa still comes from the North Pole, not the South, even though it\u2019s much, much closer.<\/p>\n
After nesting and my heart being broken because there\u2019s no wi-fi (a.k.a. no Skype with home), we returned to the mall where we first had supper at San Marco and then went grocery shopping at \u201cPick North Pay\u201d as Karen (our GPS) likes to call Pick n Pay. By nine, we were finally out of there. (What a relief.)<\/p>\n
Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We finally arrived in Cape Town, tourist (and legislative) capital of South Africa. We also visited the most-visited attraction in all of Africa\u2026 and you thought it was the pyramids! It\u2019s the V & A Waterfront. All my friends know … Continue reading