Early in January 1999, my husband learned that it was necessary to replace his right shoulder. He is 45 years old, meaning that arthritis had already undergone two hip replacement. The bad news is that since there was no surgeon in Zimbabwe who is entitled to work on this procedure, we had to go abroad for surgery. The good news is that one of the world's top shoulder specialists lived in Cape Town. At that time, since Zimbabwe was still in today's tragedy for six months, I made promises with the surgeon, arranged medical expenses with medical aid companies, reserved tickets, contacted me, etc. ; It was relocated to request lodgings several years ago. It took six weeks to arrange everything, In early March I flew from Harare to Johannesburg, then Cape Town.
Our friend Pete was waiting for us at the airport. After we collect our luggage we are headed to his house. The drive along the highway from the airport to Cape Town will introduce the town we will return home for the next ten days. The expressway was in a good condition and ran in the area of the scrub where the ridge of the road was sunk towards a distant mountain. But in ten minutes, we encountered the town of Shanti built next to the highway.
They remembered more than 10 years since they gained independence, but the difference between rich and poor is getting worse. The hut that built Shanti's town was made of all kinds of materials that make a very uncomfortable evacuation shelter than household houses combining wooden steel plates, wooden sheet metal, iron plates and rusted metal plates . More surprising was the fact that many Shanti families passed power lines overhead lines. This dangerous link was clearly approved by the Electricity Committee - Pete hoped that the municipalities and the government were not trying to keep up with the demand for home for poor society, leaving the town of Shanti intact There! The garbage collection service operated by local governments helped keep the Shanti towns available. During my stay in Cape Town, I saw several shanty towns along the main highway.
Pete lived in a suburb called Somerset West, and his house was a practical and highly contemporary apartment complex with a composite of about 30 houses. Such lifestyles are very popular in South Africa to reduce safety and overhead. Complexes are maintained very well as each owner contributes to the maintenance and maintenance of the complex. Several complex facilities provide community playground for all of the residents' children, tennis courts, and swimming pools. Each house has its own garden, so owners can usually keep pets. If you need travel or vacation, it is also a great way to live in Africa. Neighbors keep an eye on the house while they are away. My husband and I were very impressed with this life. The following year, we bought apartment complex. After that, the employer was marketing at Harare. When we sold our house in 2003, we reinvested the house in the second house. If you want to live in Africa, security is very important and multi-family complexes provide the highest level of security for your residence.
Pete was a singles so he did a barbecue on Weber's break unit that night. His girlfriend 's patt came to help with cooking. I had a wonderful night. The view from Pete's house was wonderful. Somerset West was built on a hill overlooking the city and the view from his veranda provided a vast Cape Town landscape that stretches out at the table mountain, the lighthouse, the foothills of the Atlantic Ocean. In his house there were three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a big living room, a state-of-the-art kitchen and an outside laundry / warehouse. He said that he loved most of his time in the veranda and the garden.
The next morning, I promised a surgeon, Basil · Vretos, a Greek Zimbabwean. After his examination and X-ray photography, we reserved us to an individual clinic and scheduled the operation of 8.00 the next morning. When we asked to go to the hospital in the evening, Vrettos told us to reserve at 6 o'clock next morning. He said the operation would take 4 hours. Hospitalization will be only 3 days! We became easy. Pete was taking a holiday to stay with us during our stay so three of us headed for the city.
Cape Town is a city, but organized more environmentally friendly than Johannesburg and as a result has not spread in all directions. Driving to the town is clearly visible at Table Mountain and to welcome us that morning, table cloth . This is a white cloud blowing in the mountain when the south wind of the easterly wind is blowing, but it is very impressive. There is a wonderful story evolved based on this phenomenon. Not famous mountain near table mountain is not called The devil's peak I insist that pirates called Van Hunks lived on this mountain slope every day. One day he met a stranger and he challenged him for a smoking contest. Van Hanks, which was very part of his pipe, accepted this challenge and the men of Toe blew away a few days with their pipes. Clouds of smoke gathered, the wind blew off Cape Town. A stranger Van Hooks won the contest and was defeated revealed himself as a demon. This is the origin of the name Devil 's Peak. The cloud of smoke came to be known as tablecloth.
Return to our itinerary. We head for Victoria & Albert Waterfront, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Cape Town. We walked towards the restaurant area and saw the seal of some of the cape furs playing around one of the bridges. They enjoyed sightseeing and it seemed like there was no fear of boating and noise in this highly developed section of the harbor. We found an amazing restaurant right next to the sea and ate a nice lunch of calamari, shrimp, French friends, washed out with beer and wine. After that, we took lunch at 400 stores that make up the waterfront. We also walked the craft market, visited the museum and headed for Two Oceans Oceanarium. Its name was named for the two seas to meet in Cape Town - cold Atlantic Ocean and warm tropical Indian Ocean. Later, we ran along the coast and stopped at the point where the ocean met. It is expected that there will be obvious changes and any signs that explicitly point out this meeting point, but nothing apart from the wonderful view of the blue sea waves.
Marine organisms provide a unique indication of all marine organisms. In a room designed to completely mimic the natural habitat, we see awe in seeing the endangered African penguin blended with Rockhopper Penguins and Oystercatchers. There are huge rooms where visitors overlook the sea colonies. This room is actually a part of the ocean, there is a huge barnacles rock and sand beach covered with sea shells. The most exciting moment for me was walking through a clear Perspex tunnel while sharks and other huge sea creatures glided quietly around you. You can see that sharks are being eaten while standing in this tunnel, giving an impressive impression floating in the ocean when you eat. We were also able to handle starfish and sea urchins. Marine creatures were renamed to teach children the natural world, so many tours were held for school parties. I will never forget that Octopus is said to be an intellectual creature indeed, and many octopus octopus octopuses are aware of the staff! I did not stop me from eating them!
The next morning I knocked my husband at the hospital and spent the next couple days between Somerset West and the hospital. The surgery went very well and the nursing was wonderful. Vrettos said my arthritic injury did not justify the removal of the shoulder bone so my husband covered the shoulders rather than being exchanged. Three days later he was discharged from the hospital. The only evidence of his ordeal was the sling of the left arm. We decided to visit Table Mountain.
Located 1 kilometer above the city, Table Mountain is accessible by cable car and the journey to the top is spectacular. The car turns 360 degrees, giving the occupant a unique view of Cape Town. More than 600,000 people visit the summit of Table Mountain every year. There are several hikes for enough energetic people to climb the mountain, but it will take at least 6 hours. At the top of the mountain there is a length of 3 kilometers, and the way for visitors is clearly marked. Vegetation is unbelievable. Like some plant species that survive and thrive in Table Mountain's unique ecosystem, there are more than 250 different species of chicks. There are rare wild runs and silver trees and we are producing Silver Protea. Animals in Table Mountain, including baboons, polca pins, table mountain ghost frogs, live differently. We did not see these animals, but I lost my heart to the creatures called Rock Dassy. It looks like a rabbit-sized guinea pig, and surprisingly close relatives are an elephant. They are incredibly domesticated and they are not afraid of people. I really wanted to have a house, but my husband ignored my somewhat pathetic plea! Table Mountain is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Africa, but it is certainly a natural place. At the summit there is one restaurant, and the post office has a post office with a postmark of Table Mountain. At the foot of the mountain there was a souvenir shop, I bought a magnet of a refrigerator in the form of a wine bottle with small stones of Table Mountain. Today the magnet is sitting in the Greek refrigerator door.
I need to mention here some mountains. Signal Hill is a relatively flat top hill, overlooking the city and the sea. On this hill there is a cannon, a ruin of British imperial rule at the end of the 19th century. Originally the cannon was fired to announce the witness of the ship. The ship's voyage to a ship from the UK will be discontinued to refill supply in Cape Town before continuing navigation. Today, cannons are fired at noon every day except Sundays and public holidays. Another name for Signal Hill is Lion & # 39; s Rump. This is actually called an extension of nature called mountain Leeukop , Africa's name which means the head of the lion. From a certain point of view, this mountain really makes a head of a lion.
We visited the world of birds, the largest bird reserve in Africa. More than 3000 kinds of birds inhabit. You can watch wild birds and experience whether you can see wild birds. I recall intimacy and intense Kobushi for visitors - he sits on his fat farm calling people who hurt his head. He is at least the height of my torso, very bright, flaring with a surprisingly large curved beak. Birds included eagle, swans, elk, guinea pigs, flamingos, various unusual birds all over the world. Birds in the world are concerned about injured birds and are the breeding center of endangered species. There are many mammals living in this center. We saw a huge turtle relaxing with meercuts, squirrels, mongooses, foxes, cats, and very comfortable enclosures. As I can not see the animals in the cage, it was like a wild bush that I was walking through birds and animal enclosures.
Traveling to Cape Town will not be completed without visiting local wineries. South African wines are world famous and Cape Vineyards can be seen well. There are many wine routes, but it is not actually part of the crowd, because we had a good guide in the form of Pete, we took a unique route through the Pearl and Constantia districts is. We stopped by two excellent wineries. The first one was sitting on the veranda of an elegant old Dutch gable style house and praised the glasses of wine with a selection of delicious cheeses. The second vineyard was called Meerlust. The reason for remembering that name is because of our wine tasting. They banned us on an onion cheese table with a wine cellar. It was wrapped in hundreds of large wines and tasted amazing Merlot, Cabernet · Sauvignon, Pinotheji and Chardonnay. There were wonderful roses and a nice harbor. Pete, husband and I bought some bottles to go home with us. We stopped at a restaurant that was originally the station commander. The old building complete with the railroad line was the real thing of the rich and varied historical vintage monument in Cape.
That night, we went to see Pearl's first international cricket match. Sri Lanka won South Africa in front of 9,000 audiences. Muralitharan, Kallis, Gibbs, Boje are the names I remember. It was a day / night game, meaning that the throw on the second day was under flood lighting and started around 8:30 pm. That evening we had a lunar eclipse. I have never seen it before, and it was impressive to see it without using binoculars. Sit on the grass, drink wine and eat sausage and syrup Cockquarters While watching an international cricket game under the star I am eating French fries (sweet bread soaked in syrup with fried food) ... It is a special experience even if I am not a cricket fan.
My disappointment is that I had no chance to visit Robben Island. Once used as a Hiloper's colony, the island is 12 kilometers away from the cost and is clearly visible from Table Mountain. In the nineteenth century Robben insisted that the treasure was loaded on many ships and the coins were landed from the shipwreck. In the latter half of the 20th century, Robben Island was famous as a prison, and one of the most famous prisoners was Nelson Mandela, living in the cell of this island over the 27 years.
We left Cape Town in a few days after her husband was completely revealed from Dr. Vrettos. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, I visited several cities in South Africa. Cape Town is absolutely unique, and I love returning home someday. With a combination of a wonderful history of the sea and the mountains, Cape Town will visit a diverse and interesting place. Cape Town is completely different from other cities in South Africa, such as Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria. Because it is a truly international city. People all over the world choose to build a house. Cape's first settlers include the Netherlands, France and the UK. Friends living in Johannesburg will tell me they are there for money (Johannesburg is a financial base in South Africa). Residents of Johannesburg complain that people from Cape Town are very late as their lives are less stressful. I agree with that assumption and say that I will choose QOL quantitatively at any time. Cape Town is a magnificent and vibrant city.
