Here’s what the past couple of weeks in Cape Town have looked like…
- Settling in to Noordhoek… figuring out where to buy groceries, where to buy real cheese, where the closest pharmacy is, where to buy loo-paper at 11pm…
- Getting to know our awesome hosts, Meg and Miles (while our kids enjoy their son, Jonty). There has already been a fair quantity of red wine quaffed while story-sharing…
- View watching. I just can’t help myself. Every morning, I have a ritual: make a cup of coffee, sit in front of window… and just drink in the gorgeous view!
- Beach-walks most afternoons (since it’s like… right there!)
- Swimming (since there have been many hot days)…
- Connecting with old and new friends over coffee…
- Visiting the Kirstenbosch Gardens with the kids (which is just a blissful paradise place)…
- Reading with the kids (Morgan’s reading is coming along nicely)…
- Art on all fronts. My art… kid’s art… just art!
- Buying bikes. Riding bikes (I mean – biking is part of the culture here – especially on the Peninsula!)…
- Camel riding…
- Tree climbing…
- Visits to interesting places around Cape Town… the markets, the food places, wine farms, climbing gyms, snake parks, museums… (so much to see and do here… just SO much!)
- Work in the evenings (I’m currently being employed by producers of a new film to create a mood board)… (among other things)…
- And – of course – missing Nick when he’s not around! We LOVE Cape Town – but we MISS Nick! This commuting-thing isn’t easy… but thankfully, it’s only for a short season.
And… (sucky!)… for the past week, I’ve been unwell. I haven’t quite recovered yet – and getting increasingly frustrated by the limitations of what my body can do (when sick).
And the whole sick-thing has got me thinking very seriously about the whole FOOD thing…
But I’ll talk about that in another post. In the meantime, here’s some nice Cape Town photos… 🙂
Joah (and some kelp) on Long Beach… (Morgan is in the background)…
Chapman’s Peak…
One of the interesting antique shops in Kalk Bay… we could browse in there for hours!
Kirstenbosch Gardens – I absolutely LOVE it there!
One of Cape Town’s many markets (where you can buy all kinds of freshly prepared yummy food)…
Morgan and Joah made a shop and were *selling* acorns and other bits and pieces to other kids in the playground (at Noordhoek Village)… (It must be the Greek in their blood… they come from a line of cafe owners! hee-hee!)…
Enjoying pancakes in an old train (converted into a coffee shop) in Kalk Bay…
At last a blog from you!! Hope your’e feeling better now. Ive been worried about you. My good news is that I’m totally healed from Diabetes….and I had it for 20 long years! I dont take a single pill now. No medication at all….not even vitamin pills. Pills do not pass my lips!
Yay!! I feel that at last the death sentence that has been hanging over my head all these years has been removed. All the ominous warnings that I am 10 times more likely to get like heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, and my limbs amputated through gangarene are now null and void. No it wasnt a special diet…Im eating nutritously I admit. (Havent I always?). Im making sure I get the right nutrition in because I have felt physically weak and dragged myself around for so many years – (inspite of all the medication and vitamin pills)
I want to get my strength back so eating right even more than before is doing it for me. My skin is great, my hair is great….and Im feeling great. I think its because my mindset is different that Im able to maintain it .I’m getting thinner too.
If you feel you can go that route to feel better and be healthier…. I can give you tips. It works for me. I have no cravings now and even forget to eat….its mid afternoon and I havent even thought of lunch yet…normally Id be starving.Where’d my cravings go??? Hmm…strange!
Missing you lots.
So glad you’re loving Cape Town – it’s hard to beat 😀
i too want to live differently …it may take a while…but watch this space…it may not be COMPLETELY different but SIGNIFICANTLY ALTERED – re-wired …for optimum well being and creativity…
And that makes me happy, Brenda. I guess it’s all about living deliberately… whatever works best for YOU in order to nurture that optimum well-being and creativity! (I’m still trying to figure out how to *focus* on finishing projects I so badly want to finish! And also trying to figure out which comes FIRST: the Dr Seuss style, illustrated poem… or the fat book of stories, inspiration & art – creative fodder for thinkers and dreamers)… *sigh* (I’m really not the most organised person at the best of times!)…
Of course I love this… and I miss you… still enjoying snow on your behalf. So. Much. Snow.
Ahhh… that beautiful, beautiful snow… I already miss a snow view! I have a gorgeous sea view now… and now that you mention snow, I suddenly yearn for a snow view! hehe! Can I never be satisfied??