Capetonification

Hello hello hello.
Another few weeks have just come and gone, and during that time I took a few days off from work to get some R+R.
Suprisingly I am more tired than before I had my little bit of leave.
Or maybe it's not so suprising, as I am probably less active at work (physically) than when I am at home. I do have a desk job after all (mostly)
So where did I go and what did I do?
It started with a long weeked Hollandse Morland. No fucking idea how that is spelt. It's dutch I think. Anyway, my dad owns a bit of land there, and we had been planning for some time to go and camp on it. There are houses and other campers all around, and the place is pretty well developed. All the houses are american style wooden buildings. The place is situated between Paarl and Franschoek. Nice and quiet. It gets real busy on warm summer days though, and the numbers of day campers rockets.
Me, my wife and mate and his wife went there for three days.
We packed the new Nissan Micra, and cruised to my buddies house, where we loaded up a trailer and set of for the 50+km drive to Hollandse...whatever.
While I'm on it, a big thanks goes out to Joao for dragging all the shit around in his car. It's an Opel Astra 1.8i, and a great little ride.
Muto Obrigado, buddy.
So three days came and went, and it was filled with swimming, eating, swimming eating, and some sleeping. There is a river that runs through the place that you can swim in or a nice giant pool (where most of the folken go). The water is cool, and the weather is great out that way. There is a 3 tiered diving platform at the pool and I managed to do some spectacular jumps into the pool from the highest one. Unfortunately the pressure from the landing forced water into my ears and I managed to get inner ear infection by the end of the trip. It sucks ass. My ears are still blocked and there is a ringing in the background that is similar to the one you have after spending four hours in a nightclub.
So after tying the Hollandse...whatever, we went back home, spent the night there and prepared for our next trip. The next day I had to visit the doctor. I was waking up every 2 hours on the night before because awesomely horrendous earache. So I got some pain killers, some anti-biotics, and some nasal spray to keep the way clear. Afterwards we stopped at Century City Canal Walk and grabbed some CD's from Musica for the road trip. It was only a two hour drive, but i need some new tunes. We got some 80's crap that we really enjoyed. I was pissed off though with one of the items from my purchase. It was a number 1 80's songs double CD that included them songs from popular movies from about the same time. The problem is, all the songs were cover songs, re-recorded by some other shmucks, and all the theme songs were basically midi files. I mean, What the Fuck!?!
So we were down to one CD, which mostly contained things from Culture Club. Anyway, it worked and the drive there was improved by cheese that only 80's can provide. The drive there was awesome. I really had a lot of fun in the MG. On the afternoon of the previous day I managed to get around to rerouting the cold air intakes. I don't know if it improved anything (I suppose you will never notice it) but the cacophonous roar from the simota air filter as I powered up a hill, or dropped a gear and opened up to overtake a slowpoke, well let me tell you it was spectacular. I love the punch the car gives when you suddenly apply the power. The car loves to operate at high revs, so if you nail it between 4000-7000 RPM, it really delivers.
I would not consider myself a petrol head, but i really derive much nachas from taking my MG out on the open road. It's the greatest. Going over the mountain pass, and coming back down the otherside, through the bends, up the hills, down the hills...
Wow.
So We got to our destination after an hour and a bit. Hermanus. If you are not South African, its a little seaside town up the east coast of south africa. It really is a lovely place and it really portrays the kind of atmosphere you are looking for in a weekend get away. It is one of my favorite spots in the Cape Province.
Immediately after landing, we hit the beach with some of my wife's work colleagues. (She works at a school as a Grade 2 Teacher)
The weather was iffy, and I felt crap so we never stayed too long.
After a shower we met up a bit later at a pizza place called...I FORGET THE NAME...when i remember I will post again. Anyway, I had a pizza, and as always it was good. Come to think of it, everyone had pizza. The place is reasonable with it's pricing. Unlike Fabio's, another little italian resaturant in Hermanus, which I find to be very overpriced when we went there for supper two nites later. On our second day there, the weather was crap, so we just walked around and shopped. That day, my awesome cell phone, a sony ericsson w550i broke. No display, although I could hear the phone operating when I tried to go through the menu, or turned it off and then back on. I was quite upset. The phone had been with me for over three years, and I had encountered no problems with it.
Later, we attended a wedding and aside the overlong speeches (which lasted two hours, and put most guests in a short coma) a fun time was had by all. Thanks Kels and Benji! It rocked.
Next day, two of the Fiends, Chris and Kate left for home. So me, Candi and Angela spent a fw hours on the beach followed by a supper at the all-expensive Fabio's (As previously mentioned).

END of PART 1

First day back to work ended, so I will be making my way home. I will wrap this up when I get there!

Tune in soon, for PART2