Often, there is a thin covering of cloud just touching the top of the mountain. This is known as the "table cloth", appropriately. And often as well, there are winds here blowing pretty hard. These winds are known as the "Cape doctor". And last evening, through the night, and this morning, they are blowing hard. Over 50 kph pretty steadily, with gusts going higher. In Dundas, this would be a wild storm; here it's a yawn. Pretty normal.
Yesterday we had a successful day on a few fronts. First, we went to the local mall and got our phones localized. This was needed, we felt, to allow better communication between us while here (if we went separate ways for a while).
Then we walked down the hill to the District Six Museum: a place we had tried many times to visit on our previous trip, scuttled by the Easter weekend and various unusual closures. But this time we succeeded in seeing a truly awesome account of the destruction of the District Six community for political purposes (in this case, apartheid). There were testimonials, pictures, maps, artifacts. And a part of it was a link to other areas in the world where communities were razed for "their own good"—one being in Malmö, Sweden, where a poor working-class area was levelled because of public health concerns.
We had lunch there, Bob eating a "bobotie" (suitable named), and we all enjoying a Whoopi Goldberg-like woman keeping the place alive with her energy. In all, the museum was a hit, and well worth the several attempts at visiting.
And from there, we had a visit to the beach—in this case, Queen's Beach. So we got to try out the bus system, and it works well. But we, or at least I, was tired by then, and the evening was a quiet affair at home with a bottle of wine and some cheese and crackers. Oh, and some biltong for Bob.
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Location:Exner Avenue,Cape Town,South Africa
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