Days 15 and 16... Quiet days, and busier evenings...

Played Zaid in a couple more pool games and grabbed my computer and did a bit of writing, as it was too cold and rainy for Table Mountain or Robben Island. The Cable car up the mountain was cancelled as were the ferries to the island on both days... I am loving this country and this city, but it's weather reminds me of Melbourne... Cold and wet winters... Summer is supposed to be quite stifling, but that doesn't bother me so much... As I was leaving Cape Town the next day, Zaid decided we had to play the Championship game... I gave him a 2 Rand coin and told him to hold on to it so we could use it to play the championship the next day...

Each of the days involved me watching some games either at the bar or at the fan fest and then making a call or getting a call to go out for some drinks... I was supposed to get a call from one of my friends to hang out on the day of the 16th, but the call never came, so I watched some games instead... It was good, I got to see the Spain Switzerland game on that day...

Each night I got home late after having a magnificent evening and woke up late again the next day... Before I went out on the 16th, we all watched the South Africa v. Uruguay game.

The feelings on the first day of elation were now cancelled out by utter the devastation felt by the whole crowd with South Africa's capitulation 3-0 at the hands of the South Americans. Some of the guys in the bar were proud of some of the efforts of the players, but a man in the airport on the 17th when I left summed up the feelings of South Africans best when he said “Bafana bafana embarrassed our country...”

Lionel, who ran the bar of an evening, said he wanted to go out for drinks with me after work one night... He didn't drink, but he wanted to hang out... That was cool, so on the night of the 16th he kicked everyone out of the bar early and we met up...

Again, had a few drinks, went to a couple of bars... Lionel had to go home as his wife was expecting him... I went to another couple of places and met some lovely people... Got home at 6 ready for my last day to pack up and go back to Joburg...