Cape Town is a city with a grand reputation. We haven't met anyone who does not like Cape Town. And really: the city is lovely! There are numerous places around Cape Town that a tourist must see. The foremost is of course the Table Mountain. Nevertheless, also Boulders Beach with its penguin colony, Signal Hill for a sundowner and not to forget the Cape Point National Park with Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope are well worth a visit.
Unfortunately, one thing is true for all of these: without good weather, you can't do much!
We arrived in Cape Town on a sunny Sunday afternoon just to have mainly dark, cloudy skies and plenty of rain from Monday through Thursday. Thankfully, there were so many other things to do that we didn't have a chance to get bored:our roof tent was brought to the manufacturer Hannibal for a tune-up and we finally found a repair shop that could reattach a torn bracket to a leaf spring package. In addition, South Africa has all these 4x4 shops in which we felt like children in a big toy store...extremely dangerous for the credit card!
On Friday afternoon, the weather relented and we began the intensive program for tourists - especially since the coming Sunday was supposed to bring more torrential rain (and the weather report here is rarely wrong!)
Translated © 2010 by Annika Valikhovskaya
