Treating Ourselves

For my final day in Cape Town had arranged a 3 hour spa treatment at the posh Table Bay Hotel at the Waterfront. Turned up with Suzanne, who’d also booked in for the same time but different treatments. Firstly I had my two hour Bali Spa Ritual which involved a massage, body scrub then yoghurt on top of that (smelly but nice!!), then a spa bath complete with orchids and petals followed by moisturiser… wow, it was amazing and skin felt really soft. Then my final hour was a pedicure which was very much needed and about 6 weeks overdue, as feet were really in a dire state. The poor woman didn’t complain about my manky feet (thought I might have to pay more for anyone to touch them with a barge pole) and did the most amazing pedicure so my feet actually came out clean and pretty!!!! Was sure that she’d swapped my feet for someone else’s as feet that nice couldn’t be attached to anyone who’d been camping for 10 weeks and completely neglecting feet!! Was just superb experience and will definitely go for longer treatments at home now as felt so relaxed that I almost floated home (well almost, I took a bus!).

Had my final dinner in Africa – a very tasty curry from next door to the hostel and then back to pack my bags. Threw out a lot of old clothes which will be donated to an orphanage and also all the unused drugs and prescriptions in my medical kit which gets redistributed to a centre for needy kids. Basically donated pretty much everything I had with me as stayed very healthy the whole way round other than a few snivels back in Uganda. The result was that everything fit in my backpack too easily (in fact only weighed 15kg!!) and had the sudden realization that could have bought a lot more souvenirs…. Oh well, there is only so many giraffes a girl can buy!

The following morning had a few hours to kill before my flight and had planned to head over to Camps Bay for brunch however our good run on the weather had run out and it was really foggy. Since enjoying the lovely sea views was the entire point of going to the Bays, decided to go into town to a place called Arnold’s that a Rikki’s driver had recommended. It was definitely the most fitting place for my final breakfast, indeed final meal in Africa. The fog had lifted in town so had a fab view of Table Mountain as I chomped on a full breakfast that included warthog ribs!!

Then it was to the airport, waiting at the gate, through to Jo’burg (hi Gabi!) for a few hours and then heading to Dubai, leaving the most amazing continent I’ve had the pleasure to visit.