August 1st - Cape Town

Surprise meeting at Heathrow with Mary English, daughter of Terence. They were both with us on The China Tour. She was seeing off her aunt and uncle travelling on the same flight as us to South Africa.

Good night flight arriving in Cape Town at 8am yesterday. Short cab ride to our waterfront hotel where we met up with Jingers and several of the group. Our hotel has wonderful views of Table Mountain across the Waterfront shopping complex.

Next, in three cars off we went to collect our cars. No problems at all and seeing my car being washed was an added bonus. Everything was OK with nothing missing! The drive back was fine and we filled up with diesel at 50p a litre!!

More meetings with old friends - David and Patsy Mitchell from New Zealand and Jim Taylor from the States.
Tomorrow it's a trip up the mountain and then to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years

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