Our first week in South Africa

We've now been travelling for a week and have packed so much in that we need a holiday. Things didn't start to well with the flight. Tree was sat next to an extremely fat South African. He snored like a hippo for pretty much the whole flight. I was quite amused. When we arrived our sat nav decided to send us the wrong way and took us on a detour of one of the Cape Flats township. There were no problems but its a bit of a shock driving through a shanty town within an hour of arriving in the country. We stayed in a place called Camps Bay in Cape Town. This was a really nice place to stay and we were just a few minutes away from the beach. Not many people go in the water though because the currents come from Antarctica so it very cold. On our second day we climbed up Table mountain. This was a pretty hard uphill slog but the views were amazing. Next we went to the Cape of Good Hope which is the most south-westerly point on the continent of Africa. On the way back we stopped at a deserted beach and spotted a whale which was fantastic to see. We turned around and there were a couple of ostriches just 10 metres away. We've been really lucky because the weather has been really good and its only spring here. The food has been fantastic and we have been eating loads of fish, sushi, ostrich and springbok. We've also been having lots of good wine. Obviously this comes at a price so we have been running on the beach in an effort to maintain our peak fitness and should be set to run the London marathon when we get back.....