South Africa Part 2!

With Edward finally released from work, we were at last on holiday for real and set about making the most of having entire glorious days together.  We spent a few days relaxing into our holiday, beetling about Simon's Town and visiting the local fishing village Kalk Bay, eating enormous breakfasts in the sunshine, reading books, scoffing ice creams and doing generally very little and enjoying each other's company.  

Nothing like travel Scrabble and bubbles for a romantic evening in! 

We made a couple of day trips to Cape Town, one day we wandered round the Pan African Market on Long Street which was stuffed full of traditional African crafts and then went and looked round the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront.  We also took the Red Bus Tour which took us on a guided tour of Cape Town, including a stop at the bottom of Table Mountain, which we then went up and enjoyed the spectacular views from the top.

This is Nobel Square, with statues of South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners.  (Sadly we didn't take one of the statues alone...)

Table Mountain was beautiful.

The bus then took us a little further round the coast, just in time for calamari in Camps Bay.

This is a very far away and terrible picture of Robben Island.

Green Point Lighthouse was the first proper lighthouse on the coast of South Africa.

Lucky we went up Table Mountain in the morning because it was covered in cloud by the afternoon!

And then quite suddenly it was time to go home and I was waving Edward off and trying not to cry too hard.

England welcomed me with some brief sunshine and I had a lovely few distracty-cheery-uppy days firstly with my in-laws and then with my parents which was just the thing to perk me up a little for my return to home and normal life.

...and counting down the days...