Things to do in Cape Town - EP. 156
Nicole you're ready? - Yes How's your hair? Oh you're right You're gonna have this like Model look Pretty model look That's what we call it in Cape Town My dear friend and my tour guide for today Nicole is also a solo rider She just completed a trip from Nairobi to South Africa on her Suzuki Which bike was it? It's a Suzuki Djebel Old school thumper air cooled, beautiful bike How many months it took you to get from Nairobi to Cape Town? Three and a half months She's gunned it through [Music] Today We are on long street The place to be The iconic street of Cape Town What's it famous for Nicole? Lots of bars Pubs and good food, good times Yes Lots of cool places to have a beer So we're going to explore that today [Music] So where are we going for a beer Nicole? Oh I mean Beer house That's the place to be Yeah, 99 Bottles Take care of your stuff That way, that way! Hi It's a video Oh! Yeah, I'm pretty much the same here Beer house Let's go I haven't been here in a while Me too like two years Yeah Yeah, I think I'm pretty much insane up here Oh wow not too many people Should we get the Beer o'clock? Beer o'clock? Do you still guys do better o'clock? Yes Yeah you still do that? They still do that What's Beer o'clock? Educate me It's just like this tray with small beers Like this I mean like it's like a tasting tray Yeah it's great You hadn't had beer o'clock here? I just go straight for the pints - I'm more South African Yeah, maybe you are I just go straight for the pints Pints? She's tough Our beer o'clock has arrived So now we have this Like a little menu What's included in our beer o'clock? And that's it we're just gonna go Do you go clockwise or anti clockwise? Anti! Oh yeah we'll go anti clockwise [Music] Which one you're starting with? Let's keep it easy Let's go with the Beerhouse Lit Lager This one Yeah Right Start at one and look around Should we do half half? Yeah Right? Yeah, I think so Okay, so you gotta you're gonna take that one? I'm gonna take that one? Number one Oh sorry, number one yeah? That's the lager and the other one What does that say? How do you pronounce that? I don't know you're from Africa Ukhamba Utywala Lager That's the one [Music] One of the things to do in cape town Is to come all the way to Table mountain Well I think I'm not sure if you can walk there Maybe you can but there is like a cable way You can catch to get all the way to the top I won't be doing that in all my gear And I'm very satisfied with the view I see From here so are you ready for this? [Music] So now I'm following the road To the signal hill Which is that way And the table mountain Is just right there behind me [Music] Wow What a view [Music] And finally We made it to the top of the Signal Hill And I think this is like This is actually my favorite spot And road to get here was magic [Music] Thank you so much [Inaudible] Okay [Inaudible] Woah Woah I'm ready Yeah Thank you Thank you Where should I put it? Where should I put it? Left or right? Right Right In here hey? Yeah How's my hair? Are you gonna? Oh thank you Right, so is it better now? Right guys so where are you from? We're from Yanga How far is that? From Cape Town From here, it's plus minus 30 minutes Oh, so you're local? You're from here Right So you just came here for like a little day trip? Yes Do it often? No, it's the first time And how do you guys know each other? Oh we're sisters, we are cousins You are all family? YES! So nice to meet you Enjoy your Sunday Thank you You too You too, you too [Ladies singing] You guys know how to have fun What's the song about? What is it about? What is it about? It's about the The Lord is my shepherd The Lord is my shepherd It's a religious song? Yes Right, Christian song Yes Okay, you're very beautiful Thank you [Music] [Music] Good morning, morning Today we're like we're really on the schedule Because Okay guys, I need to introduce you This is Greg Hello, hello, hello And Mel Good morning We've been friends for a long time We've been catching up here and there and everywhere And today we're doing a wine tour in Fransch- Hoek Right We're about to catch a tram so we get around Okay later, later I'll see you guys later So this is how our adventure gonna start Here on this tram Which will take us from vineyard to vineyard And so on It's gonna be fun day It's gonna be a great day So we visited the other direction if you guys like All right, all right So he's saying that side That's perfect Thank you Thank you very much sir You're welcome What sort of wine is it? It's a blend of six grapes It's from Liquid Ridge Thank you It's called the Foundation Style Thank you Thank you Cheers, cheers Cheers This is how it starts [Music] Cape Town region is definitely Something that you need to explore So today I'm in Franschhoek On the tram wine tram That goes from one vineyard to another I think it's a Yeah Definitely one of the best Tourist attractions here in the area if you're a wine lover So from this beautiful train we are getting now on the tractor Oh yes Very classy one I love it Woah, bye-bye We love ____ it Oh yes [Unintelligible] Enjoy the ride - Thank you, thank you guys See you later Thank you my dear Bye [Music] Run Get the wine Cheers for the good day Cheers [Music] The tram is coming Thank you for stopping! [Music] So I'm still in the region of Cape Town Everyday it's a new adventure I'm still with my friends Greg and Mel And I just realized I actually haven't done any interview with Greg and Mel I feel like we like With best buddies here on this route hey We're just crossing paths here and there and everywhere So we just did the wine tour together and now we're back to Cape Town And we are here hosted by One of the most inspiring people I've came across By far You know during all my travels and all my life so Firstly I'm going to do the interview With Chris Venter [Music] So we were invited here to stay with Chris Venter Chris Thank you so much for the invite Thank you so much for hosting us in your beautiful home - You're welcome Don't drink all my beers Well we can't promise that Chris What happened to you in 2014? Well I'd worked as a professional chef for 20 years And were really tired of staying behind the stove Decided to have an adventure and create a story Traveled all the way from Cape Town to Dublin, Ireland On a little 150cc Vespa Scooter And unfortunately I became very ill in the middle of Africa And Shortly after the trip In June of 2014 it cost me my sight I spent a year learning to walk again and put my life back together and And now I've reinvented myself I did finish the book The book became much of a much, much a larger story Because of course it wasn't only about my scooter trip but about going blind and Now I do crazy things as a blind person I'm a blind adventurer and Publish books about that And you're testing motorcycles And I do reviews of bikes, yeah I become the pillion so I've got a buddy who, who pilots and takes pictures I organize the trip, I'm the pillion and I write the stories So at the house at the moment we have We have two books I'm just showing the books now Right How I become the blind scooter guy, right And the other one is Sightless from Sicily to Southern France you walked I pedaled, I pedaled, I walked I did a little bit of everything So I went ahead on that journey and The famous blind explorer from the 19th century called James Holman I did a recreation of his first journey And looked at modern day travel vs. how it was for person a hundred years ago Because we got Uber Eats and Uber taxis, Airbnb Google Maps and he of course doesn't have that But he also had advantages He could yell coming people from far and People will be a little bit more generous with their time and food and If I knocked on the door at 8 o'clock at night I would have been arrested more likely Wow You are an incredible person really We're both Honored to meet you and, and To stay in your house with you Thank you so much for this little interview It's great having you here Thank you Cool So you guys ready? My riding buddies are you ready? Yeah Yeah okay, let's do a little interview now Right, okay Guys, so where are you from? We're from the United States, Alabama Alabama And what do you do here in South Africa at the moment? We are just traveling And riding around the Southern Africa - On one motorcycle? On a motorcycle On a motorcycle, but you guys long time overlanders - Yeah You wrote a book as well and what was your book about? It was called 'Two Up with a Pup' And it was about our journey with our dog from Key West to Alaska Right And back And back That's insane So what other continents have you have you traveled through? So far Let me see we have been to Asia Europe We've been New Zealand So New Zealand We've been in Australia North Africa And this is our trip to South Africa We've been all over North America So and Central America Yeah So we have Australia and South America left Yes Well done you two So you travel two up and now you are on borrowed motorcycle You're traveling through sort of Southern part of African continent, right? Like you have no destination Like a final date or something you just go You're just going with the flow Well final destination is back to East London where we'll drop off our motorcycle that was exactly In a few months but you're not in rush Yeah, no Guys, this is really We met once in Germany that's the first time we met And now we met, I don't know And now I think I've met fourth time on the Garden Route Zigzagging and meeting again and I'm like We're going to continue traveling together for a few more days So I'm so pleased that yeah we get to do it together Yeah Thanks Okay Mates! Cheers Cheers Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! And I mean it No, no drinking I'll try, I'll try I've got a cheat I made it [Inaudible] Oh was my hair okay? I think your hair looked fabulous On this one, yes So So did yours and yours Hello everyone, how's my hair? I just went to the hairdresser Today I'm in the waterfront Which is the icon of Cape Town It's full of little restaurants Markets, posh restaurants Low budget food stalls and yeah It's sort of like the mixture of the neighborhood And the working harbor Absolutely amazing place I think you can lose yourself here for at least one day [Music] Ready? Yep Oh, good [Music] [Crowd Singing] [Music] By far this is my favorite building in whole harbor Concrete And glass Piece of art [Music]
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