Cape Town...beautiful Cape Town!

Cape Town...what a cool place!
I started my journey in Capetown staying at The Cat and Moose Hostel. That's not a typo, it's Moose, not Mouse...I never did find out the story behind the name; but if you are ever in Capetown, under NO circumstances stay at the Cat and Moose! Scary is an understatement. So at about 7am the next morning I move to a different place called Ashanti's. It was recommended by a fellow backpacker from Mbizi by the name of Juliet. If you can't trust someone named Juliet, who can you trust!
Ashanti's is a great hostel and I can highly recommend it. I stayed there twice with a four day break when I splurged and stayed down on the waterfront.
The same morning that I moved to Ashanti, I went up Table Mountain for the first time. Pete, Pat, Paul and Jean, the four Brits that I had met at Mbizi in johannesburg were also supposed to be heading up that morning. Well, Jean and Pat were at the top, but Paul and Pete were doing the walk up! Congrats to them for that effort! While the girls and I waited at the top, drinking tea and eating breakfast, the "Table Cloth" started to move in. It's a low cloud bank that starts on the Atlantic Ocean side of the mountain and climbs over the top of Table mountain...like a table cloth. The cloud/fog was so thick you could actually see it moving in the doorway of the restaurant...waaaaay cool! The boys arrived, we had a beer, then the horn sounded to catch the nmext tram down or be stranded up top for the night. We didn't miss that one!
The next day I met a couchsurfer named Tonya and her boyfriend Stuart. Stuart, I hope you realize how lucky you are, and Tonya, if you ever come to Canada...come alone! :) But I digress...we went out for a few drinks and pizza with some friends of theirs. I got back to the hostel at 5am...so says the front desk who had to hjelp me up to my room, glad I had a lower bunk!
Tonya and Stuart were great, showing me around and even helping us get to Robben Island when there was some confusion at the docks. I still feel bad about all that.
Robben Island is a MUST do in Capetown. A most excellent tour with a guide who was a former prisoner there for eight years. Very insightful and sometimes painful even for the tourists to hear the stories.
I went on the Peninsula tour which took us out to Seal Island as well as to see the penguins on the beach.
On my second last day in Capetown I finally met Roxxie Bekker! We have been friends for over two years and finally got to spend a day together. What a great person. Roxxie aand her friend Tammy took me down to the Obs area, and the eastern side of Capetown, and other than one incident with an overly agressive local, it was a wonderful relaxing day of beer, touring and good friends.
The next day Tonya drove me to the airport for my flight back to Johannesburg.