So you missed me?
Since I've been on vacation and all. *g*
Spend 1 Week with my parents and my aunt in South Africa soaking up the sun and eating lots of great food (that is no joke - if you think I am food obsessed I am nothing compared to my father who literally planned the entire vacation around restaurants he wanted to eat at!)
Lessons learned:
1 Week is quite enough family time. Still workable but longer would probably drive me insane.
Spending time in Capetown ended up being a very schizophrenic experience. Wanting to enjoy your vacation always warring with looking around and being quite appalled at the systemic racism not only in the way of living there but also in my own family and the way they reacted to that way of living.
I did enjoy it and the Winelands were beautiful, the Waterfront much fun and the sun very very sunny! Which was awesome!
Still, something was off for me and I could not imagine spending much more time there. (Though I do have to admit that we did stay very closely around a specific area (due to this being very much the vacation my parents wanted to have) so don't take me as someone actually knowledgable about anything there.
But still, if you care to see them, I uploaded some pictures. *g*
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Spend 1 Week with my parents and my aunt in South Africa soaking up the sun and eating lots of great food (that is no joke - if you think I am food obsessed I am nothing compared to my father who literally planned the entire vacation around restaurants he wanted to eat at!)
Lessons learned:
1 Week is quite enough family time. Still workable but longer would probably drive me insane.
Spending time in Capetown ended up being a very schizophrenic experience. Wanting to enjoy your vacation always warring with looking around and being quite appalled at the systemic racism not only in the way of living there but also in my own family and the way they reacted to that way of living.
I did enjoy it and the Winelands were beautiful, the Waterfront much fun and the sun very very sunny! Which was awesome!
Still, something was off for me and I could not imagine spending much more time there. (Though I do have to admit that we did stay very closely around a specific area (due to this being very much the vacation my parents wanted to have) so don't take me as someone actually knowledgable about anything there.
But still, if you care to see them, I uploaded some pictures. *g*
Originally posted here
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