New Year

New year was a mixed bag, starting well and ending pretty miserably..


Starting with the sun going down looking over Cape Town.


Then some fireworks down at the Waterfront at midnight, all 4 minutes of them.

And then the fun really started...

We've had to endure 2 weeks of night market on Adderly street directly below out apartment which hs involved lot's of load PA, music and packing up stalls until 2am.. But this took the biscuit - a marching band parade locally known as the Coon Carnival (I kid you not) was running from midnight right outside. Besides the thing being inexplicably loud, which was bad enough, the same troops marched back and forth all night playing the same talentless bit of music. At 5am after no sleep whatsoever I went outside and swore at someone in a uniform and learnt that it would be going on till 6am - by which time the sun was coming up. Awesome.

Safe to say, news years day was tiring..