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Jan 03
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After the scant-amount of sleep we could get we woke up to a particular kind of breakfast unique to airline-food, not entirely unpleasant but I struggled to find the reason why. We landed in Johannesburg for refuelling and a change of cabin crew before flying off to Cape Town where we arrived at 11:30 local time.
After passing through passport control I was called to the baggage handing desk to be told that both sets of luggage had not managed to get on the flight from Amsterdam. After some form filling and visually indicating what type of bags we had (from a huge checklist on two sides of A4) we were able to leave. Karl had arranged a cab to pick us up from the airport to take us to out hotel, throughout the journey we noticed little signs which proved we were no longer in England.
After arrival and check-in at the Tudor Hotel in Greenmarket square we had a walk into town to buy some clothes to wear from Edgar’s (a department store) and a few other essential items (e.g. Bottled Water & Crisps) from Shoprite. We cashed some Travellers Cheques in the Tourist Information Office where we also got interviewed by a journalist, asking questions about out trip to Cape Town. Upon returning to the hotel we grabbed a nice long sleep to recharge our batteries before going out for the evening.
The first order of the evening was to find a bar and with this in mind we wandered down Long Street and came across Kennedy’s Cigar Bar, both a restaurant and bar with live jazz music after dark, it was here we sampled out first South African beer – Castle. We drank in both Kennedy’s and the Long Street Café before we got to Mama Africa, a restaurant recommended in one of our guide books. Unfortunately Mama’s was closed for a private party so we headed into town in search of a restaurant, we found one but it didn’t offer much in the way for vegetarians (I’m an awkward vegetarian in the fact that I don’t really like vegetables). As luck would have it we ended up on Long Street again where Mama Africa was now open so we ate. The food was great, James had the Mixed Game Grill (Ostrich, Springbok, Kudu and Crocodile) and I had a pasta dish.