Cape Town doesn’t look its best today.
It looks like a scene from a disaster movie, with floods, broken trees, branches and damaged buildings everywhere.
We did get completely battered by yesterday’s storm.
But… give it a couple of weeks (ok, or maybe a month), and all that will be tidied up and forgotten about, and Cape Town will still be the most desirable city on the continent.
Which has its drawbacks:
But still, you’d rather be here than anywhere else.
Example No.1:
We spent the morning walking along Struisbaai beach before heading off at lunchtime back to Cape Town (Azerbaijani radio all the way home) (IYKYK) to be de-sanded and ready to get to Hollywoodbets Kenilworth to see this guy’s race.
Let’s just say that we worked a lot harder than he did. Another disappointing performance, despite looking happy and healthy in the parade ring.
Still, got a little bit of money back in the Lucky Last, so it wasn’t all bad.
And it was a beautiful day, but the weather has closed in already and we won’t be seeing the sun again until at least Thursday.
After a really good night of braai’ing, beer and brandy, the last thing I felt like doing this morning was a Parkrun.
It’s often the last thing I feel like doing full stop, but at 7am this morning, it was an even less attractive option than usual.
But there’s more than one person in this marriage, and this was the occasion of Mrs 6000’s 50th Parkrun, and so I was up and ready to support her in this impressive achievement.
For the record, it was my 6th Parkrun, my first in almost 3 years, and my first in South Africa in almost 6 years. (I did say that it wasn’t my thing.)
But the Agulhas sunrise wasn’t bad…
The run done, I gave my legs a stretch on a speedy 2½km to the lighthouse, where we grabbed some decent coffee at the new Needles restaurant.
Home, showered and breakfasted, I just have to stay awake for United’s last game of the season, and then I can sleep off the excesses of last night and this morning.
Happy Saturday.
It’s been a while.
Stunning day at the Southern Tip.
Yeah. Rough and ready. Deal with it. The hint was in the title. 😉
I’ll have a look at these properly when I’m not enjoying a Castle Milk Stout and braai’ing some pork belly.
Until then: Cheers.
At least for a while.
This game of football last night.
Like nothing I’ve ever seen. I seriously can’t recall a game like it.
Arguably the two best club sides on the planet, going at one another like a couple of heavyweight boxers, punch for punch. And it just kept going and it just kept giving. To a header off the line in the dying seconds which could have been 5-5.
And they meet again next Wednesday. Surely it can’t live up to this 1st leg though.
Can it?