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  Cape Town, South Africa
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

One of the most beautiful cities yet that we've visited.  

It was absolutely fantastic to spend an entire week with our friend, Claudia.  The thing we've missed most from back home are our friends, and being able to hang out with one for a whole week was refreshing.

Almost everywhere you go in Cape Town is stunning.  Even our flight in was breathtaking.  First time I have gasped as I flew into a city before.

I'll let the pics do the talking.  Needless to say, Claudia has it good there.  Then again, we do have it good too in Vancouver.

We made sure to enjoy as much South African wines and game meat that we could.  Didn't do awesome with the latter, but did pretty decent with the former.  SA wines are mostly average to great quality, and a relatively expensive bottle runs about $7-8 Cdn.  Many are $3-4 per bottle and are very good.  We will miss you Pinotage!

As for game meat, we had ostrich (steaks and biltong = African jerky), impala, and what we were told were kudu and springbok, but might have been warthog instead.  Dunno.  Regardless, it was ALL good.

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Castle of Good Hope Upper Walkway	Castle of Good Hope grounds	Original pine road in Castle of Good Hope	Well Wheel
Solitary confinement cell at Castle of Good Hope	Inscriptions from prisoners at Castle of Good Hope	Inscriptions from more prisoners	Cape Town panoramic
Camps Bay - gorgeous	Paragliders at Camps Bay (Miami-like)	On our cheesy canal cruise in Cape Town	Along our free Cape Town canal "cruise"
Wineries are amazing in Cape Town	Groot Constantia Winery Estate	Restaurant at Groot Constantia	Groot Estate grounds
Groot vineyards	Under the African sun at Groot Constantia Winery	Beware baboons! Uh, ok.	In the vineyards at Groot Constantia
Barrel after barrel after barrel...	Stunning estate grounds	Panoramic of Hout Bay - also gorgeous	Tanned, but cold, at Hout Bay
Hout Bay	Camps Bay (where beautiful white people roam)	Catch a ride?	The "conductor" of our minibus into Cape Town CBD
Awesome posh market at Old Biscuit Mill	To die for goodies at the market	More goodies!	Wait, even more!   Comments!
Ok, that's enough	Where the rest of the beautiful white people hang	Rad burger joint that only sells 50 burgers a day	The wait was worth it!
Sipho is so happy! 4 of us shared 2 huge burgers	Wider!	Then we hit up a HOTDOG ("boerie") joint	Also astounding! (4 of us shared 2 hot dogs)
Braai (South African wood fire BBQ) at Mzoli's!	Braai meat, fantastic beats, & even better friends	Our pile of braai meat	Rockin' it at Mzoli's - on of our best experiences
Us with the owner of Mzoli's. What an honour!	Locals rapping outside of Mzoli's	In the "township"; we were like celebrities	4 of us shared 1 (biggest sandwich I've ever had)
Wine tasting together - so much fun!	Jo'burg homies - random new "friends"	Best tasting we had - with CHOCOLATE of course!	South African sunset
Very cool restaurant at Spiers winery	We opted out because it was a buffet	Cape Town Gatsby sandwich (meat, egg, fries, etc.)	Riding another minibus with the locals
Heading to see the 'guins!	Beautiful scenery on the train to Simon Town	'Guins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yippppeeeeee!	Didn't I say South Africa is BEAUTIFUL?
Carolyn with the penguins at Simon Town	South African penguins hanging out on the beach	Chilling out together	Scenery was beautiful
Artificial penguin homes	So close! And so cute	Gorgeous scenery on the way back from Simon Town	More beautiful scenery on the train ride
Waterfront and Table Mountain	Waterfront at night	Beware old people???

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