Arriving in Cape Town - V&A Waterfront

Well, I didn’t even get much sleep in the plane. You can imagine my actual fitness level….;-p….But, however, the curiosity of meeting new people and enjoying today’s sun in Cape Town overwhelmed me more. After being picked up at the Airport and entering the volunteer house, which you can picture like one of those holiday homes for school trips with bunk beds and common areas etc., I decided to go out wit Aná and Sete from Spain. Aná and I are at the same room and we arrived the same day, which made it easy for us to connect.

Long Story short, we went to the V&A Waterfront since it turned out to become a beautiful, sunny day with a blue sky. There’s a major shopping mall and lots of bars and restaurants waiting for us. This waterfront is one of the oldest working harbours and having the sea on one side, the Tablet Mountain as its backdrop you can imagine the view and atmosphere here - simply stunning and really inviting yourself to relax.

Usually, there are 16 – 18 degrees here –> T-Shirt time. The morning and nights in comparison can be very (!!!) cold. A kind of cold we aren’t used to as Europeans. FREEZING cold and not “nice“ at all, to describe it in an euphemistic way. However, what doesn’t knock us down makes us stronger, doesn’t it? But, first mission for today: getting a warm and fluffy blanket for the nights. ;-)

Our day turned out to be a very touristic sightseeing trip. Just walking around, observing the people and getting impressions of how a typical day at the sea could be like. Very impressive and imprinting itself into my memory immediately was (and still is) the overall positive and creative nature of Capetonians. They’re really musical too. Once we went along the promenade, there was a small band playing typical local sounds by using drums and a kind of tamburin. They invited my friend Aná to join and she basically jumped into the rhythm by playing the balaphon (-> the African Xylophon so to speak). Very cool actually. Some steps further, we got the chance to listen to an African youth choir with beautifully strong voices and a Contortionist (-> s.o.WHO can bends ist body parts infinitely). Finally, I drank an non-alcoholic apple sider and somewhere got a typical African desert: Malva pudding. By reading “pudding“, you’d normally expect something sweet with a creamy texture. Well, it is sweet but it rather reminds you of a carrot cake. On top of that cake there’s caramel creme, added by a lovely vanilla ice ball on the side of the plate – yummy. :D

… leaving this picture in your mind until news of mine may sweeten your day again!