Wanderings

Cape Town is a great place to just wander. One’s safety antennae must be fully extended and put on high alert as there are times when one wanders “into the wrong side of town” without realizing it.

Our area of town is called the Gardens. Mostly a residential neighborhood with a number of streets populated by restaurants, bars, clubs and small shops of a great variety.

However, our wanderings take us far and wide, getting around on foot, by local buses, and occasionally by Uber and/or Bolt. Everyone has been incredibly helpful, providing lots of warnings about not engaging with people, staying safe, and directions to the best things to see.

Yes, there are definitely areas we don’t go to and times of the day/evening that keep us restricted to certain districts. We have never felt unsafe or threatened and mostly quite the reverse.

Then there are those things one comes across unexpectantly. And here, Connie is druelling over a used Land Cruser thinking of all the places she could explore in the southern and eastern parts of Africa. The Toyota Land Cruiser is what we used in Botswana and lived in for almost a month. A tank of a vehicle.

This past Sunday was really the first real summer day we’ve had in Cape Town – temperature of 27C, lovely wind blowing and we were ready for a day off. No exploring, no must do items. Just relaxing in the back patio of our rental suite.