Welcome to Cape Town!

Welcome to Cape Town!

Earlier this week Becs and I went for a run just below the infamous Table Mountain (this is all in preparation for the Two Oceans half Marathon - in April - of course...). From the road you have the most beautiful views of the City and Table Bay. The picture above gives you a sense of the development within the City, with the three round towers in the foreground being residential apartment buildings. Better known as the "salt-and-pepper-pots".

The road contours along the base of Table Mountain, where you have unlimited views of Lion's Head (see picture below), and the suburbs beyond the City borders. Cape Town is such a cosmopolitan city but has a quite a sad history to it. The City is host to a few different museums documenting its contentious past--from its colonial heritage to its devastating apartheid laws and forced removals of "non-whites" from within the City to the Cape Flats (literally flat land, below sea level, which floods during most winters). When you visit Cape Town, make sure to visit places like the District Six Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Cape of Good Hope Castle, the Bo-Kaap (traditional Cape Malay district), Long Street (for its frivolous night life!), and of course a trip up Table Mountain. And not to be missed is the notorious Robben Island, where exiled anti-apartheid political activists were imprisoned, including Mr. Nelson Mandela.

It's also a City that has much to offer for the outdoor enthusiast. Which is one of the reasons that Ali love this City so much! The greater Cape area is surrounded by two oceans (Atlantic & Indian), with the thin spine of the Table Mountain range being forced up in between it. The mountain range runs north to south, with the most south western point being Cape Agulhas. And the nothern end being the flat part (known as Table Mountain...). When Rebecca's mom, Ruthie, visited Cape Town a few years ago, we took her to see Cape Point and Cape Agulhas--she loved it!

If you're looking for a city that offers hiking, trail-running, mountain biking, kayaking, diving, surfing, paragliding, shark-cage diving, great food, wonderful people, the best wines, and more, then Cape Town has it all!

It ended being one of the best runs we've done so far, and we might have to go back again! So, clearly, if you have not been to Cape Town, then get yourself over here!

Peace and love!


Ali & Becca



Becs looking hot in her new running shorts! woohoo!



Lion's Head in the background, and look at those calfs...glistening in the sunlight.



And another City pic, with Robben Island in the background, and the new sports stadium going up in the upper left hand corner of the picture - for the Soccer World Cup 2010.