Week 2&3

Last time i wrote we were just about to climb table mountain with incredible conditions. It took 4 hours and near the top there are reservoirs that we swam in to cool down. From the top i saw some of the most amazing views I've ever seen, and you can see them on some of the pictures i took from the top. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/enzocav
I decided to group these two weeks together as surfing and kite-surfing both depend on the weather, so we just take each day as it comes. The wind in Cape town is so crazy, so the conditions for both are quite good. In fact, 1 mile down the beach from where we've been surfing, the biggest wave ever ridden...got ridden - 80 foot! I can't even imagine that as the biggest we're on are about 4/5. But I've improved loads and even bought my own board! It turns out that Kite surfing isn't as hard as it looks, we all got up on boards for a while. But when it goes wrong its not fun, i got drifted a mile down stream and had to get rescued by the instructor!
As both the activities are out of our control, when the weather's bad we get a few days off so we've been doing lots of other things as well. One day we went up to the vineyard country to sample some wine. We went to three and in all of them they sit you down, explain all about the wines then give you as many bottles as you want! And the best thing...you don't pay anything to do it!!! Our Saturday night was sorted! On another day we went to an African flea market. There were so many amazing things crafted there, and all these family's of children dancing around everywhere, but as soon as any of the stall owners see a foreign person coming they never stop harassing you! We also drove to a cable wake-boarding place. I've never done this before and its so different to behind a boat, nowhere near as good. On one of our nights off we went to a festival that was on, and another night we went to another but it was more like a party on the beach! And on all our other days off we make the most of the beaches here and get very competitive at bat and ball!
Today is our last in Cape Town and everyone is so sad to leave. Its definitely one of the nicest places I've been, and it would be an amazing place to live. But we're also excited to be moving on, this week we stay in a house at a wake-boarding camp which sounds fun, especially as the water is supposed to be warm-anythings got to be better than this water though, its colder that England's sea in winter here!
Remember to look at the blog and the pictures!
xxxEnzoxxx