The Big Trip-Paris, Africa, London: The Last Day of Congress

Before it gets too far behind me, I should just talk about the Congress. Much of the business got finished without dissention or discussion. The whole experience was not a very interesting time. Berlin was much livelier. To end the Congress, they honored outgoing officers, including Reg Weaver, and incoming officers, including Dennis van Roekel. Rather than sit through the whole experience, I chose to take the Red tour bus for and “of and on” tour of Cape Town. It was really pretty informative and as we got to one stop I remembered I had not picked up my laundry. I got off here, picked it up and joined the tour later. It was good.
The tour went by the Parliament Buildings which built by the British. Included in the complex is St. George's Chuch which is where Archbishop Desmond Tutu was rector. The tour also provided a lot of history and stories about Cape Town's development. I did learn that the V&A waterfront was not the Victoria and Albert Waterfront but the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. Alfred was Queen Victoria's son who came to Cape Town to celebrate his mother's golden jubilee. In all it was very informative. It also went up Table Mountain for a panoramic view of the whole of Cape Town- Magnificent!
I spent the rest of the afternoon organizing and packing. At 5:30, a bus picked us up for an most elegant evening at the Bay Hotel in Camps Bay. It was a very lovely evening. Goodbye said, I was on the first bus back so that I could be up for that 3:30 M wake up.

Now the adventure really begins!