60th

VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Tue 19 Jan 2016 03:19
The other half of the VS crew has just turned 60 (I think she’s still 18 though). In my opinion this should have been celebrated by a sky dive but the concept was vetoed out of hand due to extreme cowardice, and replaced with afternoon tea at the poshest hotel in Cape Town, the Mount Nelson, which specialises in this event. The birthday girl preceded her tea with a full three hour spa treatment which she proclaims a great success, as was the enormous and sophisticated English afternoon tea (no afternoon tea in England was ever like this) including SA champagne. A select few cruisers were invited to join the VS crew. Here we are:


Our Swedish friends Sara and Magnus Carlson (we are travelling the same route back to Europe this year), who both turn out to have sweet teeth, survey the death by sugar table:


Nicki Reynolds attacks the cakes, while I am having proper Scottish drop scones:


Our table; l to r: Magnus, Mike, Nicki, Sara, me.


A great time was had by all.