Ripped shorts and smokey bars

So my last few days haven't been anywhere near as interesting as the title suggests. Although my shorts have indeed ripped in unfortunate places and the bar I sat in watching the football today was very smokey. You forget what we take for granted now we have the smoking ban in the UK.

It's got pretty hot these last 2 days must be around 30C or so. Nights are pretty muggy too and unfortunately in this hostel it's either use the warm duvet or sleep with your boxers showing. Not sure what the locals in my dorm would think of that so I slowly roasted it out.

PMB is an interesting little place, it's the main university town in the province so has a studenty, laid back style with the usual chaotic African mix downtown. I trekked it out to the suburbs to wander around the botanical gardens yesterday on advice from the youth hostel owner. Worth the effort, they were really nice but as you walked there you couldn't miss the endless litter on the roads and pavement. The locals have a very cavalier attitude to rubbish and very casually throw it down. Surprised there hasn't been a drive to take more responsibility for their actions and disposal of waste, it really is a blight in some areas.

Today was spent sorting out my plans for the next bit of the trip. It had always been abit vague and since Lesotho is out of the question (it really needs a 4x4 and a wad of money to do I justice) I've come up with a pretty awesome plan B. Tomorrow (Monday) I'm picking up a little hire car ad heading to Underberg/Sani Pass in the Drakensburg Mountains for 2 days o walking, exploring and hopefully getting some stunning camera shots.

Then it's back to PMB early morning before a 21hr bus ride down to Cape Town which I'm really excited about. I've been there once before but only very briefly so now ill have 3 nights exploring possibly the best and most iconic city on the continent. Ideally I'd have stayed there longer but my bus to Windhoek dictates I leave Cape Town on Sunday else the price inexplicable doubles if I wait any longer. So that's the plan, canna wait :)

On a side, there's a stonking load of wifi about.