We spent Christmas and New Year in Cape Town, South Africa.

A-MA-ZING.

On Christmas day we just had to go to the beach. This is Camps Bay, just a short walk from our holiday home. We ate lunch in Blues Restaurant, then went back to the beach to sleep it off!

On 27th we took a long drive along the False Bay seaboard to Cape Point stopping off along the way for a swim and lunch at Fish Hoek, and to see the penguins at Boulders Beach. It was a fantastic day.

On 29th we did tandem paragliding - it was wicked!

We spent the last day of 2008 hiking up Table Mountain. We reached the top in about 2.5 hours then spent an hour or so doing a summit walk to Maclears Beacon, then took the cable car down which took 4 minutes! The 360° views were incredible.

On New Year's Day we drove out to the breathtaking scenery of the winelands. We stopped for lunch at the pretty town of Stellenbosch, chilled under a huge tree at the Boschendal wine estate and sampled some of their fine tipple, wandered round the postcard town of Franschhoek and drove back to Cape Town via the Huguenot Mountains.

On the 2nd we went early morning sea kayaking from Mouille Point and saw dolphins! We were so close to them as they jumped out of the waves, but they were too fast to capture on camera.

In the afternoon we wandered around Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.

On our last day we came across the Cape Minstrels parade and watched it pass through the Bo Kaap, there was so much music and dancing. It went on for hours, but we headed off to Milnerton for a look back at Cape Town and Table Mountain and one last swim.

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