Daily report #68

Dear summer lovers...
Yesterday it was one year ago that my mother passed away on a warm summer morning. It's one of those "first times" when you've lost someone. Fortunately, my daughter helped me remember....., we are so out of the world at the moment. It was a beautiful day. Ton felt a lot better, started doing all kinds of jobs and I had the opportunity and also the last chance to climb Table Mountain. So packed the bag, took an Uber to a starting point and toiled up. Immediately it smelled wonderfully spicy and I walked up the slope along a splashing stream. Beautiful gorge that you climb through to end up on an almost flat stone. I suddenly thought I was on a Norwegian fjell. Proceed to Maclear\'s Beacon a Navigational landmark that you can see from both sides of the cape from the sea. Beautiful views over Fals bay, Hout bay, and Robben Island. Mom would have loved it except for the biting winter wind :-) that was there. In the afternoon with a lovely winter sun I walked down the road towards the city. Ooh the calves.

Robben Island on the program today. Also the only option during our stay because of the weather. If there is too much wind you cannot go to the island. And yes, this place confronted us with the unprecedented brutality of the white regime from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. First exploring the island by bus along the quarry where limestone had to be chopped completely for free and then a visit to the prison where an explanation was given by an ex-convict who was imprisoned there for 12 years. An impressive story, an impressive place, an impressive farewell to Cape Town.
Tomorrow our journey to the north begins. A trip I never would have made if Mom hadn't passed away last year. That gives a strange feeling.
See you again from the water.