Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Cape Town
Well, we did it - we got hitched!
I'm going to have to do this a little bit backwards, as I don't have photos of the wedding yet, only the journey home! I do have a memory card with 950 wedding photos on, but as you can imagine, I haven't quite got round to looking at all of them yet...
We got married in Argentina, which likes paperwork and not trees. To get to Argentina from Doha, you can either go via Europe or via South Africa. When we went to Argentina in November, we went via the UK, which took 39 hours. It was horrible. So this time we went via South Africa, which took 40 hours. We must be mad.
The advantage of this extra hour, was that we could stop over in Cape Town on the way home, to have a mini-psuedo honeymoon.
I can honestly say that Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is stunning; absolutely beautiful.
There was only one problem...as we arrived at our super-plush hotel the receptionist said, "I'm afraid your room's been cancelled."
Excellent.
Somewhere between the hotel and the holiday-booking website, there had been a miscommunication and the room had been cancelled. By a stroke of luck, there was a spare one, so major hotel-searching-hassle was avoided.
And by another stroke of luck, the weather was fantastic.
Table Top mountain was climbed (well...the cable car helped a little)
Bo kaap was checked-out
Penguins were viewed
Cape Point was snapped
and Ostriches were fed.
In fact the only real cloud we saw was on the last day, when we were leaving! Perfect!
In June, Qatar Airways are opening up a direct flight to Buenos Aires. This will take about 17 hours and therefore save around a day of my life. Thanks Qatar Airways!
