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Day 7
location:George / Plett. Bay
summary:Train tour, drive to Plettenburg Bay
trip:sa02
day:7 -
Day 6
summary:Transport Museum, Shopping and Internet, Reading
location:George
trip:sa02
day:6 -
Day 5
location:Cate Town / George
summary:On the road, visiting Caledon and Mossel Bay
trip:sa02
day:5 -
Day 4
location:Cape Town
summary:Climbed Table Mountain, night market
ihave:Climbed to the summit of Table Mountain, South Africa
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trip:sa02
day:4 -
Day 3
location:Cape Town and Peninsula
summary:Robben Island, Boulders Beach
trip:sa02
day:3 -
Day 2
location:Cape Town
summary:Victoria and Alfred Waterfornt
trip:sa02
day:2 -
Day 1
summary:In transit
location:London
trip:sa02
day:1 -
Day 29
Finally at quarter past twelve my train arrived. It was a regional service, much like the commuter trains I get back home. Once I had found a seat and the train was moving away, I realised that there was a time bomb ticking in the next seat. It was a sleeping baby.I could look at this two ways. Clearly the baby was, at some point, going to wake up and make enough noise to cause a small earth tremor. They always did when I was anywhere near. I could either choose to sulk, and cringe every time the train went over a bump in the track, or appreciate that I would be prevented from sleeping and therefore wouldn’t miss my stop. I chose the former, and spent the next two hours willing the child to continue sleeping.
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Day 28
When we awoke we discovered that the brooding skies of the previous day had turned to rain. In fact, it was pouring. This gave Chris a long-sought-after opportunity to gloat about some ludicrously overpriced waterproof jacket that he had purchased in Copenhagen. I just donned a T-shirt and pulled out a cheap umbrella that I’d picked up in London before we left. We still, didn’t have tickets for the buses, but this didn’t really matter anyway because we after the night’s misdirected wanderings we were determined to work out the route on foot. We had to take our backpacks with us too, because I was leaving in the evening to go back to London, and Chris would check into a hotel for his final night in Florence.
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Day 27
The first night of not sleeping on the move for three days was much needed. We picked up some water from a local supermarket before heading into town, but the way the sky looked, lack of water was not going to be a problem.First we headed for the largest attraction on the map, a fortress-like structure north of the station, which took us via a leather-goods market and a lot of police officers frantically diverting traffic. The lonely planet guide had said it may be closed, but in fact it had since been converted into a conference venue. We walked around it anyway, then walked on to Piazza St Marco.