Week 1 & 2 South Africa visit to Cape Town

Well we bundled up a boot load of medication for Shelley and Laura to deal with colds and asthma and jumped on a plane to Cape Town. Chris braved navigating around the city with our hire car to the apartment located not far from the waterfront. We had our first try of Crocadile kebabs which was nice and tasted like tough chicken really loud african music. We visited the Waterfront and had breakfast with Pearly who is the sister of a friend of Jaci's and hand delivered the quilt that was sent from Joburg to Cape Town. Poor Anna we really didn't charge 500ran to hand deliver the quilt which was a running gag! The Waterfront was lovely and we watched the AfriCan man play his petrol can guitar and it sounded cool!

Robben Island Tour
The tour around Robben Island was amazing mainly because after the bus tours around the main buildling we were shown around the prison cells by an ex-prisoner. The island had 1,500 people still living on it and a school for the 25 children of the staff. All of the tour guides were ex-prisoners. We visited the limestone quarry where Nelson Mandela and the fellow political prisoners were assigned the hardest labour with the guards being routinely changed so they didn't build a relationship with them.

A small cave was allocated for lunch and this is where Nelson Mandela and his colleagues taught other prisoners to read and write and educate them about the ANC (African National Party) political philosophy of working in partnership with white south africans.

This is the cell that Nelson Mandela spent his time in.....small hey! we saw the exercise yard with the small garden that Nelson Mandela buried all the pages for his book.