Cape Town Blog

Hi all

Thought I should say a few words about our time in Cape Town. It has been pretty busy hence the lack of wordy blogs (except game reports).

Cape Town totally lives up to its reputation of a beautiful city. The Table mountain is visible from everywhere. The city seems safer and cleaner than Durban, however this may be because we have been in the nicer parts of town.

We have seen quite a bit. We have all been to the waterfront area- think Wellington's waterfront with 100s more shops. Out to Robben Island - flat, bleak and hot, and we were shown around the prison by an ex inmate which added a reality to the whole thing. The boys are getting a lot of history on SA which is all so recent, 20 years only since the end of apartheid. History again today with the visit to Newlands stadium and cricket ground and again presented with the newness of sport in this country not being divided by race. In between a few trips to beaches especially Camps Bay on the Atlantic side which everyone said was too cold for swimming - many swam anyway. And of course some water polo and training. And of course the trip up Table Mountain- Spectacular, the photos say it all.

The boys have gone off tonight for their last lot of billeting- all seemingly quite happy. I think billeting has been less scary as they have gone along. Ben has done a great job of mixing them up and they have gone to the billets with a different team mate each time. Their billets are all back at school so early morning starts. Many are craving a sleep in!

Today we are going to visit a township and then the games against Bishops.

Jane