We ♥ Real Beer = Lies!!!

Greetings from Cape Town! I have started my adventure after a rather stressful transitional life of working for 6.5 weeks after being laid off. It is such a relief to be done and SO exciting to be traveling (aka in my happy place)!!!

My 33.25 hour journey from SF-->CPT took me through Amsterdam and Johannesburg on KLM. I will say, KLM is an airline I recommend flying. While the food was not the best, they made up for this with multiple feedings per flight. COPIOUS food. You will never go hungry on KLM. Both long flights offered snack areas in the back with crackers, cookies, mini Mentos and tea/water and they each had ice cream distributed between the 3 main meals. THREE!

I had a 9 hour layover in Jburg and stayed at a hotel for a quick shower and cat nap. I left a sunny Jburg spring morning to fly to a "wintery" (per our pilot) Cape Town, complete with light rain. Michael and Emily greeted me at the airport (weeeeee!) and immediately interrogated me about homemade brownies from my mom. We hopped in their new-to-them 1993 BMW, which seriously is a HUGE leap nicer than our shared black Altima at home...not complaining, I'm just saying...took Michael to school and then Emily and I came to their beautiful home. We have a view of Table Mountain, that is incredible! My guest room has a view of the police horse grazing land, I find this funny.

Apologies for boring you with details. The title of this post has to do with the fact that so far the wine has been AMAZING, but the beer is awful. If you know me, you recognize my love of that golden, hoppy, refreshingly magical beverage known as beer...here, the "beer" fails. Emily and I were at a wine shop and saw this sticker claiming that South Africans love real beer and I just wanted to let the world know, this is not real beer.

I'll share real news in my next post, but please feel free to email and comment early and often. (It is such luxury to travel in a country with readily available internet!!)