TIA for short, but given recent news best not use the abbreviation as it has different connitations in UK.
Anyway we are finally on holiday in Camps Bay near Cape Town. The hotel is an old Manor House rebuilt in 1929 after the previous one was demolished. The house shows many features and furnishing from its days as a family home, with additional properties neighbouring the house being purchased to allow the hotel to boast 19 rooms, albeit only 4 sit within the original.
We have a Degas above the bed, and other artifacts draw ones attention to the heritage as you walk round. Before you ask though it was built with diamond money, not money from the slave trade.
In TIA terms, we have already had two planned electrical outages, and no water for several hours. There are plenty of tomatoes though.
Yesterday was a settling in day, crowned off by a steak dinner with wine for less than £50!!
Today we have done Chapmans Peak, Simon's Town, as you would, and Boulders Beach.
Boulders beach is home to a colony of African Penguins. Very strange to see then in such a hot environment.
Tonight it is off to the The Codfather, a famous fish restaurant, then tomorrow it will be tour bus time. I anticipate a busy two weeks.
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