Cape Town

The ‘meet & greet’ in South Africa at the end of Leg 2 was terrific.

The warmer weather made all the on board tasks easier to perform. We had won the leg so all was well with the world. There is no doubt the more you do something, the faster you get at it - our deep clean went well, not only were we faster but we were more efficient . We were starting to know what we were doing and how to do it. We were also motivated by the fact that finishing all the tasks meant we had more personal time to see Cape Town.

Chris & I had both been to the Cape before but it had been some 15 years since our last visit. There has been a huge amount of development along the waterfront and we both compared it to Darling Harbour in Sydney. They held the FIFA soccer world cup there in 2010 so the infrastructure is in place for tourism and the demands for masses of people.

Table Mountain is a must for any visitor to Cape Town. We had done it before but thought about doing it again. The crowds and waiting time was out to 2 hours so instead we circumnavigated Cape Town on the giant red open-top double-decker bus. It was a very pleasant few hours taking in the sights and smells of Africa.