Monday 1st December Waterfront Cape Town trip with mom and Carlos.

The waterfront never disappoints. So beautiful. We had some shopping to do for mom and then coffee at Vida. Walked around a bit and found a strap for my watch.

We had a lovely dinner and a glass of wine, courtesy of the Peninsula.

Sunday 30th November a relax day Cape Town trip with mom and Carlos.

Walking with Carlos our 5km each morning and then I am alone in my 11 degree swim. Andrew, Terrance and Holly joined us at Strolla and we went for a swim and a walk on the beach.

Carolyn's mom, Bertha is in hospital as she passed out at breakfast with Dom and Carolyn. So scary, she now has to be careful as she may have seizures in the future.

Cape Town trip with mom and Carlos. Back to Elgin Market, driving, no train 29 November 2025

Again, driving to Elgin and back was a lot of traffic. Still beautiful with many people that arrived on the train. Once they left there it became very quiet.

Holly was busy, keeping everyone on their toes.

Trip to Cape Town with mom and Carlos 28 November 2025

Left St Francis Bay at 5am and we stopped at De Rust for a great breakfast. Little traffic on the R62 and we continued to Barrydale, stopped and had a cooldrink, stretched our legs and continued to Worcester where we drove into a lot of traffic. Not so many trucks just many many cars.

We got to Cape Town around 17:00 went shopping and then ordered from Nori Sushi. They got the order wrong and the quality was not as good, so weird as it was value for money.

Cape Town, landed at 10:15 - 01 November 2025

We landed from Doha, collected our luggage and Terrance kindly picked us up from the airport.

We spent a lovely morning with Andrew, Amy, Holly and Terrance. Carolyn was working so we will see her later.

Had a great meal at the deer park cafe in Vredenhoek, highly recommended with Holly having a great park to play in as an extension of the restaurant.

Holly is shattered after a full day of playing in the park.

Long conversation with Darren, lovely to chat, loved the beard, will miss it.

Croatia, Zagreb, walkabout 31st October 2025

Dario picked us up at Zagreb airport and took us to Oasis apartments. He pointed out a good place for dinner and we went. I had the tempura prawns and Michael had a large burger, both accompanied by Pan beers, Michael had a chocolate desert and the above beer as well. Both types of beers were great.

The Oasis apartments, very simple but hot water showers and great air-conditioning so all good.

In the morning we got up and headed for the town, we found a place for breakfast. They did not understand us at all except for the cappuccino which they smiled and produced the best one yet in Croatia accompanied by a croissant type cake, delicious.

The owner then fetched the chef that spoke a little English and we described an omelette. This is what Michael got. It was really good.

We carried on our walk and found thousands of flowers for all saints day which is being celebrated today in Zagreb.

This is the area of Zagreb we were walking through and there are so many parks and areas for kids, every form of pitch for sport. Swimming, basketball, football, swings and general trails.

We walked further and visited 2 churches in the area.

We walked to a park and had the best orange juice.

We walked back and packed our stuff. Dario took us back to the airport only to find that one of us was confirmed on the flight back to CT but the other one was not - so would we mind going Turkish airways should noone cancel their flight? They sweetened the deal with a meal voucher but it became unnecessary as someone did cancel. So I am now sitting in Doha on our final leg of the trip typing my blog.

Croatia, Zadar, at the airport, 30 October 2025

Thomas walked us to the bus, he insisted. Service with Noble Caledonia is at a different level. The bus arrived and we boarded it with no issues and 20 minutes later we were at the airport.

We checked in for our flight and are now having a coffee and an apple cider.

We have to collect our bags in Zagreb. We had planned to check the bags all the way to Cape Town. Unfortunately not an available option.

Bombardier Dash 8 - Q400