Just keep swimming
posted by Paul
So as I mentioned in yesterday's post, Kerry-Anne and I are spending the weekend at Camelot... not King Arthur's Camelot but Cape Town's Camelot, a luxury self-catering villa on the slopes of Table Mountain.This 15-metre heated swimming pool is a dream for anyone wanting to keep fit without having to head off to the gym. As I mentioned, the villa lies on the slopes of Table Mountain, and the owner reckons that there's a 20 or 30 minute walk that one can take up the mountain to a spot where you're able to see the tip of Cape Point.
So, with the pool for doing laps and the mountain for climbing stairs, I'm pretty sure that a month in this exquisite location could go a long way towards the formation of a fitness regime.
It may be of interest to mention that we've neither swum a lap nor climbed a step on the mountain since arriving... we have however suntanned, napped, and made use of the spa-bath (which overlooks the Constantia Valley and Boland mountains) - if that counts for anything. :-/
7 Comments:
Now that is an indoor pool, sounds like a great place for a relaxing break.
Now that would be the right indoor swimming pool for me and what a relaxing place you have described there!
Beautiful photo, by the way.
John and blognote, you'll both be glad to know that we finally had a swim in the pool this morning. It was absolutely exhausting (it's even longer than it looks, when you're swimming lengths), but great fun. :)
You should dispel one of the many myths of Cape Town...you cannot see where the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean meet from Table Mountain. You need to go to Cape Agulhas to see where they meet. False Bay is not Indian Ocean water.
Anonymous, yes, we had a quick chat about that point before publishing the post. It's true that there is always debate about where the two oceans actually meet, and while Agulhas is the southern-most tip of Africa, I don't think the meeting of the two ocean currents is that simple.
Thanks for bringing your point to our readers attention... the age-old debate no doubt causes quite some confusion for visitors to the Cape.
The undisputed fact however is that the vantage point from the slopes of Table Mountain is spectacular, Indian and Atlantic aside. :)
@Anonymous - Thanks for mentioning this. As Paul said, we did have a bit of a debate about it before posting, but somehow we forgot to actually change the post before hitting "Publish". I've edited the post now, and we'll certainly cover the topic in detail when we do a post on Cape Point (hopefully a little later this year).
If I had the privilege of staying at such a beautiful place, I wouldn't feel up to too much strenuous activity either!
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