SOCCER WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA

                          When you drive around anywhere in South Africa, you can't miss the ball...
                          The countdown started long ago and now there is only 2 weeks to go
                          before the Soccer World Cup  2010 starts...

THE GRAND at CAMPS BAY

The Grand is a restaurant and bar in Camps bay Cape Town, filled with red roses in champagne coolers...

Where ever you look you will find red roses...

       I spent there a lovely afternoon with my friends, at the upstairs bar sipping wine and eating good food...

      Lots of special details in the decoration, some of the tables have these large majestical red velvet chairs...

The Bar area

My Lunch grilled calamaris...mmmmm...

                                                                       Separated dining area

 

Tables details...

While sitting at the bar this was the view to the left at Camps bay beach... from the open window...

                                                              ...And the view to the right...

CAPE TOWN

I am ones back again in Cape Town ...I came here for the Cairo to Cape Town arrival on the 15th of May but actually I came few days earlier to enjoy Cape Town with my two friends...Some nice shopping, eating out and enjoying the sun set at the Radisson Hotel by the sea drinking some champagne, walking on the beach, that's one part what Cape Town can offer but there are plenty more...With my friend I stayed in a B&B in Camps Bay, there are plenty options for accommodations. Now I am staying in the V&A hotel in Waterfront and as I got in to the hotel reception, I was told that they have upgraded us to the Boutique Hotel of the V&A just opposite side of the street. The room is really stunning and we have a view from the balcony over the whole Waterfront area and from here we can even see Robben Island, which sadly famous for it's prison where Nelson Mandela spent many years... Now it is a museum and you can catch a boat from Waterfront harbour to visit the museum.

Cape Town is a shoppers paradise, you find some nice ethnic chic souvenirs to take back home, clothing, local natural products etc...

Table Mountain...View from the Radisson hotel terassace by the sea at Waterfront

Sun set colours of the sky...Waterfront from the backside...

Cape town is surrounded by the sea so you can just pick up one of the many beaches and walk, swim or just sit and enjoy the view...The water is not very warm at least this time of the year and never expect to have warm swimming water in Cape Town...

NAMIBIA

                             I spent few days in Windhoek Namibia, my husband arrived the on his
                             cycling race from Cairo to Cape Town...so I did not really had time to
                             visit anthing else than Windhoek...

                           The two trucks that carries all the bags and it has a kitchen as well...

                 In Windhoek itself there is not much to see but the surrounding mountains are beautiful
                  and Namibia has lot to offer for tourists...

       11.000km behind them still almost 1000km to go until the finish line in Cape Town, South Africa...

                                                                    The from the sky

                                                              ...And the Atlantic coast ....

VICTORIA FALLS HOTEL...THE HISTORICAL LANDMARK...

         The sun had just rised and it was shining the terrace that overlooks the Victoria falls with the bridge

      It still have a old colonial feeling, in this hotel the British Kings and Queens have spent their "holidays"

                                                      Collage of some old souvernirs at the hotel

                                The view of the sunrise at 6 o'clock from the hotel garden

                                                                        The Bathroom

                                                                        Close to the monster

                                                           An other part of the Victoria falls

                                                        Boat trip on the upper part of Zambezi river

                            Quite calm looking Zambezi river, but at the end the cloud is the water fall

                                                          Our sun downer drinks on the boat

                    The famous sun down over the Zambezi river between Zimbabwe and Zambia