Ok, I'm gonna try to make this a quick one although I'm sure it will be a novel like always. So yeah, on Saturday morning, the Waltons took me to this farmer's market type place called Porter's Pigs. It was one of my favorite things that I've done so far. There were booths with all different types of foods to sample. I sampled: fudge, honey (above), lemon curd, dried fruit, and biltong (the South African version of beef jerky, with your choice of beef or springbok, which is a type of antelope). Great place. Also, I had pancakes for breakfast and just to clarify, here, a pancakes are long, thin, and rolled up, like crepes. Mine had sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice inside. Delicious. Here, the pancakes we think of are called flapjacks or crumpets. Hilarious. It just never ends haha.
Yeah, so it was 70 degrees that morning we went to Porter's Pigs. Ok, let's just stop for a moment and reflect...It is WINTER here. Hahahaha. Beautiful. fun fact: 70 degrees Fahrenheit is 21 degrees Celsius. :)
Anyways, so today I went to Robben Island, which is the location one of the many prisons Nelson Mandela was incarcerated in. (He was at this one the longest- for 18 years.) We took a ferry out to it and one non-history related fact that I learned was that people actually live on the island today- not many, but a hundred or two, mostly people who do tours and everything. The island has its own primary school, church, supermarket, health clinic- all for the tiny community that lives there. Once the kids graduate from primary school, they take the ferry to the mainland and back every day for high school and then university. Anyway, yes we saw Mandela's cell. We learned that him and the other political leaders who were imprisoned there basically planned the new democratic South Africa during meals and during their brief breaks from working at the lime quarries morning til night. Whoa.
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