thoughtful

well, today i checked out of cape town - didn't have too busy a weekend as there are just far too many british tourists in cape town... it's just like being in milton keynes.... went to robben island and not much else to be honest... still just enjoying doing nothing....

robben island was kind of wierd... there were alot of tourists there.. around 150 on my ferry and i don't think people knew what it was all about... very few south africans.. mainly british and americans most of whom looked and talked as ignorant as pigshit

the guide gave a good talk on robert subukwe.. who did as much as mandela if you ask me... he lived on the island for years and parliament even wrote a law specific to him to keep him interred.. stirring stuff.... the solitary cells were very small.. about the size of my office at home...... i can't even begin to imagine what that was like.....

also went down to camps bay to look at the trendies... all the usual... this place is wierd.. sometimes, you feel like you are in the uk, then sometimes it's like the us and then occaisionally it's africa... a mix of all 3... which is good i think...

anyhow... i'm now in stellenbosch.. wine growing area.. off on a trip tomorrow to look around and sample some of the local produce... heading to the coast at knysna and then plattenberg, then up to the karoo in beaufort west... then finally another wine stop at paarl before heading back into cape town for one night before flying to joburg on monday afternoon to connect to the flight home via dubai... it's going to be a hellish 24 hours as i'll be on the move for the whole time....


laters...