Nap @ New Cape Quarter

The sandwich board outside the shop that sells furniture and light fittings says "Snack, Eats, drinks etc." Is it too much to hope that they are all for free? For me to enjoy whilst looking at a piece of prettily arranged gnarled root.

It was too much to expect but the place was away from the restaurant and coffee shop killing zone and felt a lot more relaxing.

Here I am then, on a Nap sort of rustic scaffolding plank bench with a prices tag of R895 on a shaded terrace. I've got a view of Signal Hill, a rich fruity muffin (R20) and a strong americano (R15) and I've just seen one of the centre's cleaners drop her cell phone into her bucket of floor washing water. It still worked when she fished it out. Bubbles came out of the speaker when she got an sms. I said that's what you'd expect of a Nokia, built tough. She said it was a Samsung.

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