Back to Africa!

We started our Africa vacation in Cape Town, South Africa.  If it wasn't for Table Mountain looking over the city, it could be any modern city in the US, well except its history goes back hundreds of years starting with the Dutch and the British.  This history has left Cape Town with a Castle (more like a fort but the locals insist it is a Castle), beautiful old churches, and developed vineyards that were prized by Napoleon!

The first site we hit up was the V&A Waterfront... and let me tell you it has everything!  Shopping malls, numerous restraunts in every price range, live music, and even a Hofbrauhaus beer garden... and we tried and enjoyed it all!  

The first day we had some of the best fish and chips we have ever had.  The sign even boasts "the fish you are eating today was swimming in Table Bay last night"...now that's fresh!  The best thing of all was it was cheap, it would have cost 5x more in HK and been less than a 1/5 as good! After lunch we walked around the area stopping to listen to some live music.  One of these bands was really talented (Bocelli with an African beat anyone?) Melissa took them home with her - well, she bought their CD. After that, we happened to stumble across the beer garden ;) This beer garden didn't have the correct table cloth or trees but the beer menu was spot on.  And that's all that really counts right? I had a weissbier and Melissa had a radler (a mix of lemonade and light beer.. it's apparently quite refreshing for the non beer drinker).  

Yum! 

Prost!! (Cheers in German!) 

All that beer drinking coupled with the jet-lag and it was lights out!!