Introducing Cape Town! - My Home :)

So I mentioned in my last post that after staying with the Meirings for a couple of weeks I found my own place. I got an email forwarded to me, which was forwarded twice before reaching me, about a place in Upper Woodstock that was available for 2 months. I jumped at the chance. It is close to transport and gives me the chance to find out where I want to live before committing long term. And this is the place:

This is the view from my window (pictured above, top right) on a sunny day. The house is up on a hill, or more accurately, on the side of Table Mountain, and overlooks Table Bay. You can see the shipping yards in this photo.

This is the view from my front door. Directly ahead is the CBD, and behind that is Signal Hill which was used to communicate from the port to the city back before the days of radio (like Batmans Hill for those in Melbourne). The CBD is quite small in Cape Town, the population is only just over 2 million, and it is very spread out. But it is a truly beautiful CBD.

So all the photos I've shown you are on beautiful sunny days, but that's only half the story. The weather has worked quite suspiciously to a strict timetable of one horrific week of torrential rain and wind, followed by a week of beautiful sunshine and hot weather. Its the middle of winter. I arrived to one week of storms, the next week was beautiful, the following week was floods, this week is beautiful... This photo is my bedroom on one of the rainy days. Its such a nice setting to read a book of watch a movie....