What a beautiful day to write on my blog! Today I went to Robben Island (where many political prisoners were incarcerated during the freedom struggle, including Nelson Mandela) with our entire group which was good. The island is actually a lot bigger than I thought- it has an entire town on it! It also had a lot of history prior to the twentieth century which was interesting to learn about, AND I even got to see some penguins!
We all came home after the island and made lunch. I made an incredible sandwich- first I sautéed some green peppers and garlic and then I scrambled an egg in with the peppers. I put some jalapeño dipping sauce stuff on both pieces of bread with some sharp cheddar and then put it all together and grilled it with a pretty good amount of butter. Then I ate. It was fabulous- I might even say it was the highlight of my day… maybe…
After all of that we went to the beach! We were in “The Town of Camps Bay” which is about as upscale, posh and creepy as “The Village of West Clay” mixed with Laguna Beach… pretty much just of lots of wealthy Europeans drinking stiff martinis and soaking up as many rays as possible. But it was a really lovely beach. When we first got there we went the completely wrong way and had to climb over tons of giant rocks to get to the actual beach- it was maybe the best part of the entire beach experience. I love climbing around on big rocks more than I love most things so I ‘blazed the trail’ barefoot which was great. The rocks were hot so I had to move pretty quickly so I wouldn’t burn my feet- so I had to think fast. Once we finally got to the beach we just swam (the water was super cold- I guess it’s next door to the artic?) and read and laid around which was quite nice. Afterwards we went on a walk through “The Town of Campus Bay” and found a really cool place to eat called Nandos which was Portuguese and African. I had a baler status salad that had this super spicy but really delicious chicken on it. yum. We got to watch the sun set over the ocean from our table and by the time we were finished with dinner it was pretty much down and the moon was big and beautiful. We called the same taxi that took us to the beach to take us home (I forgot to mention that this ‘cab’ is a big yellow van that has ‘yellow submarine’ painted on the side and is driven by a man named Pierre. Awesome.) Now I’m sitting at home and contemplating going to Long Street to ‘da clubs’….we’ll see.
Camps Bay: http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/images/campsbay2.jpg
http://www.diamondhouse.co.za/Camps%20Bay%20View.jpg
http://www.bluewaters.co.za/images/CampsBayRestaurants1.jpg
Robben Island: http://monthliesblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/robben_island.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/africanhistory/1/0/q/A/Robben-Island-Entrance.jpg http://www.tropicalisland.de/CPT%20Cape%20Town%20Robben%20Island%20Nelson%20Mandelas%20isolation%20cell%20with%20his%20artifacts%20b.jpg
February 16, 2009 at 12:03 am |
That sandwich sounds so good! I finally get the whole ‘mouth watering’ phenomena.