Cape of Good Hope

With all the excitement around planning for my 2025 trip, I decided it was time to dust off the photos of my old travel album and digitize them.  How weird is that, taking photos of photos!  This being necessary due to the prevailing technology of the time being instamatic. Youngsters will have to look it up in the dictionary. :-p

Well I started with my trip to Cape Town, that was planned with my friends Marion and Karen.  Somewhere around the year 2000.  So I'll share a few key moments from that trip over the next few days. Just don't expect them to be in chronological order.  

On one fine day we decided to head out to Robyn island, obviously made famous as the prison where Nelson Mandela and many other well known African leaders were held during the apartheid era.  But more on that is a story for another day. 

On our boat trip back, I was just struck by the beauty of Table Mountain out at sea and my mind raced to what the experience must have been like for Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, when he rounded the Cape and saw that glorious sight for the first time.  It's no wonder that he absolutely had to set foot there.  

The history of the fairest Cape developed from there as the discovery of this all-water route opened the way for international trade between Europe and Asia. 

Travel and exploration are so very exciting and I can only hold my breath and wait in eager anticipation for what awaits me in 2025. 



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