.... as it's dark, overcast and very windy so inside instead! I'm currently in Jeffery's bay, the spot to come surfing in the whole of South Africa. But it is far too windy to surf, or walk on the beach even. So as you can imagine in a surf town when you can't surf, well there really isn't much more to do! Well there is drinking of course, but as I didn't go to bed until 3 this morning it think it is best to wait a few more hours before I start again! Well I do have the Liverpool vs Man Utd match to watch in an hour or so.
So what have I been up to the past few days I hear you ask. Well not a huge amount, just working my way up the cost through sleepy beach towns. I went zip lining through the treetops of Tsitikamma forest yesterday. It was fun and there were good views, but it wasn't enough of an adrenaline rush for me. I'm much more looking forward to bungee jumping off Sydney harbor bridge!
Friday I went up to a local township with one of the staff members of the hostel. For those of you who don't know what a township is, it's basically slums that were set up for black people during apartheid. That's probably a very simplistic and only partially accurate description, so you're probably better to Google it for a better description. Anyway back to the story. We went to the local community centre as they had opened it up for the evening to the teenager so they had somewhere else to hang out other than the streets. They were playing cards, dominoes, and singing and dancing. I played a few games of dominoes, and even won one! I struck me when I was there that this just wouldn't happen in England. The children would just be playing computer games or on the internet. I just shows you don't actually need that much to have fun, and they did seem to be laughing an awful lot more than any kid on a computer game.
Well I'm off to Port Elizabeth tomorrow for a few days, hopefully finally get to learn to dive there. Although with the current weather that may not be possible, I may have to wait until Zululand. I'll try not to leave it quite so long between posts next time.
There is clearly a correlation between the weather and length of your blog. The Township experience sounds very interesting; but what is zip lining and why doesn't it satisfy an adrnalin junky?
ReplyDeleteDad
Zip lining is where you fly between the trees 20 metres up clipped onto a steel cable. Wasn't fast enough for my liking!
ReplyDeleteI love that you have done zip-lining, visited a local township and are now planning to watch a football match. You're even starting to get a touch of the philosophicals. You are experiencing all of life :) xxx
ReplyDeleteIwondered what zip lining was too.You learn something new every day.
ReplyDeleteMum xxx
Remembered you were most likely on my favourite continent last weekend as I was eating fried plantain, jollof rice and shito chicken in a Tottenham restaurant.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, enough about me. Keep up the writing and maybe throw in some photos of you cavorting with International girls and I'll be binning my Michael Palin boxed set.
Daniel
Glad your having a great time. Your making my holiday to Greece sound very tame. Very jealous of you high adreniline activities. Your going to love bungee jumping. It is a massive rush. And it still wasn't a red card.
ReplyDeleteYes but the whole idea of your holiday was to do nothing! I'm also spending time doing nothing, you can't be busy doing things all the time.
ReplyDeleteOh and that's enough talk about the football, I'm trying to forget about it.