Welcome to Cape Town

Hi All!
We have arrived in Cape Town and it is great! I am on vacation in South Afrca's most beautiful city together with Saskia, Laura and Lydia. But I have to start from the beginning: Yesterday we departed from Hamburg and the flight to Frankfurt was ok. We originally should have had to wait for something like 1.5 hours but our flight was resceduled to 00:55am next day. Two more hours to wait. Shit! The Lufthansa-People told us, that the plane had been hit by a lightning during the last flight and they - of course - had to check it. That did not bring more confidence
into our minds - so to say.
But the plane was checked and it was ok and we started. It may be due to my last experiences with Singapore Airlines, but for me Lufthansa is crap! Service is not good, food is bad, no screens in front of every passanger no choice of tv-chanels, little space and little comfort at all. And by the way: Lufthansa is quite expensive in relation to better Airlines.
But finally we arrived. At the Airport we passed through immigration and customs quickly to meet with our transfer-guy. At first we could not find him until we saw him - identified by a sign in his hand with Saskias name on it - discussing with somebody who had arrived with our flight too and his name was Dr. Blix. That is very funny, as Saskia's surname is Brix and she is a Dr., too. And this man argued, that he was the only Dr. Blix in the world, therefore this "r" must be a mistake and he needs a transfer now and wanted to take our driver.. But we intervened early enough.
Our Hotel in Camps Bay is amazing. This suburb of Cape Town is were the rich people live and i tmakes me feel uncomfortable staying between those snobbish people. But at least we can walk on the streets here feeling safe. It is very comfortable and much like nothing I've ever stayed at. And today it was 25°C, though strong wind and we can see the South Atlantic, Table Mountain, the Twelfe Apostels as well as Lion's Head from our Room!!!!
We already planned and booked a lot of things for the next days. Tomorrow we will rent a car and drive to the "Cape of Good Hope" and to Simon's Town where the pinguins dwell. On Monday we will do the wine-tour and on Tuesday we want to climb Table Mountain and have a look at Cape Town's Waterfront. O Wednesday we will finally go aboard "Polarstern".
Today we walked down to the beach of Camps Bay and looked for ATMs, Restaurants and SuperMarkets. On our way we saw Sea Lions and Dassies. Dassies are not the cutest mammals. They more look like awkward, fat rats without a tail and clumbsy feet (Picture). They are the closest related species to elephants alive, though quite small!!
We found a very very nice SeaFood Restaurant close to the beach and Saskia and I shared a big SeaFood plate. This plate I will never forget! It was unbelievable delicious. We had a bottle of white wine from the cape (very low-priced) and really enjoyed being in South Africa.
Afterwards we took a cap and drove to Alfred&Victoria Waterfront. There we walked through the streets and had another beer.
That is the news for today. All the best to you.. Torben