2 January 2011
On New Year's Eve we dined at Luigi's, a local Italian restaurant with Jenny and John and their daughter and partner, Leila and Chris who have joined Tzigane to sail from here to Brazil. Then we welcomed in the New Year's at the Hout Bay Yacht Club along with Ariane and Basia and Anna and Udo from Destiny. The theme was music from the sixties, seventies and eighties and feeling nostalgic we all danced the night away. We woke to pouring rain, early on New Year's morning, the first since arriving here from Richards Bay, and wind from the north-west but it did not last too long. By lunchtime it was once more hot and sunny, not a breath of wind. It is hard to believe it is the same place of two nights ago. Basia invited us for sundowners and then for once David and I had a quiet night. On the 2nd Tzigane hosted a rum punch party and then it was Voyageur's turn. Eight of us sat down to a buffet style lunch, setting a new record for the longest lunch party ever during which we played a rather riotous game of Jenga. Apologies to the other boats around us! I am much too embarrassed to say how many bottles of wine were consumed! It is just as well we plan at least one more wine tasting session with Tzigane before we leave South Africa!
Susan Mackay