THE SUN SHINES AGAIN…. Had a much better sleep, ended up getting an extra blanket, so now toasty warm. Still both waking up at 3am, body clock saying it’s 9am still! Got up early to walk to V & A Waterfront to go on the Robben Island tour, but when we got there it was cancelled again because of rough seas (we didn’t care about rough seas. we’d already taken Kwells so we were good to go…), rebooked again for Monday - 3 times lucky hopefully hey! But the day is a great day, sun is shining and it is so much warmer. SIGNAL HILL We caught a taxi to Signal Hill and had lunch up there, there were some Turkey looking birds that were brave enough to take some bread from my hands - I’m ... read more

WINTER IS HERE Woke up at 2am, FREEZING!!!! Will have to buy some fleecy pyjamas, not traditional honeymoon attire but... Got up at 7:30am to howling winds. Phoned Robben Island as we were meant to go there at 9am and all tours have been cancelled until at least Saturday! We were meant to be going on our shark dive tomorrow so phoned them as well and has been postponed until Sunday. Seems like there is a pattern, Tim proposed on a windy wintery day, we got married on a windy day and the start of our honeymoon is windy and wintery… Let this be a lesson to all you folk thinking about following in our footsteps, propose when it’s sunny!!!! The hotel put on a pretty good spread for breaky, even had porridge! Although our Robben ... read more

STARTING OUT Tim's Mum and Trav drove us to the airport where we caught up with Heather and Sharon at the check-in counter. There was a mix up with our ticket numbers, eventually the good people at Cathay Pacific sorted it out so we could at least get as far as Cape Town without any more hassles, fingers crossed it was a one of.... But they sweetened the moment by giving us 4 seats to ourselves :) Got to love Australian Airport security. Took belt off, had to go back through and take bangles off, back through again to take boots off - FINALLY got through, got dressed again and then had to get frisked, only in Australia! Boarded flight, realised I've been on budget airlines too much when my excitement peaked at all the things ... read more