Home Sweet Home

Good biking road!

back to the boonies

Wine tasting at 9 am. Quaffable but far from transcendent!

Just wrapped up a 3 week vacation in south africa (durban and cape town). Wine tours, cheap beer and the beach- that about sums it up. Oh and also a riot that we were part of in cape town on new years day.
We thought the beach at camps bay would be somewhat empty because of all the partying the night before but we were wrong. Thousands and thousands of people were bussed in from the townships on new years day to celebrate apartheid (before 94 they weren't allowed on the beach). As we sat above the street and the bay in a restaurant we watched all happen. Bottles being thrown and ambulances and police cars trying to push through the packed streets. After a few hours in the restaurant we decided to make a go at finding a cab and getting the hell out of there, but the manager of the place strongly discouraged us from leaving. After another drink (not me because of my struggles all day from the night before) we made a go at it. Not a good idea. Cabs weren't even coming in because of the bottles being hurled in the air. Police arrived in riot gear and with huge dogs. I managed to get pepper sprayed and had to run from the hounds. The police were making all of the blacks go to the far side of the street, while we were allowed to stay next to them and find a cab. Still blatent racism in South Africa, thats for sure- we made it home and then took a 26 hour train to joberg. Ready for some serious R&R in the village.