Day 20

Day twenty
Wednesday 5th February 2020 
Current position
74A Buitenkant St
Cape Town City Centre
Cape Town
8000
South Africa
S 33°55.76316'
E 18°25.27812'

We kissed goodbye to the hire car as we left it at Cape Town International Airport. We were amazed that we had only done one kilometre over our alloted limit and that would have been a little less had we found the drop off point the first time round.
We had a quick coffee in the Airport before catching the bus into town. It was good to be back on a bus again especially when it left just three minutes after buying our tickets.
The twenty five minute journey passed quickly as we chatted to a lady who lived in Cape Town and a young man who was visiting from Johannesburg. They were full of things to do in Cape Town some were on Ros' list and those that weren't she took a mental note of.
When we arrived at the Civic Centre Bus Stop we decided to buy a seven day bus pass. A simple task which took over twenty minutes. It was as quite embarrassing as the queue grew longer behind us. The Kimberley Backpackers Hostel was too far to walk from the bus stop so an Uber came to the rescue. When we arrived our room was not ready as the electricity had been shedded in the morning so we left our bags and went for a walk in the oldest Park in Cape Town which started life as a vegetable garden for the Dutch East India Company. We sat for a time watching the antics of those feeding the huge flock of Pidgeons.
After another cup of coffee we made our way to the Holocaust and Genocide Museum where we and our belongings were scanned like departures at an airport. When we were finally allowed in we firstly visited the Synagogue. The lady who showed us round proudly told us that the central wrought iron light fittings were made by a company in Birmingham and that the stained glass windows on the lower floor had been made locally in 2012. She said that during the services the men sat in the pews on the ground floor and women sat in the pews in the gallery. She told us that visitors were welcome to attend the services which we may well do on Friday.
We then made our way to the Holocaust Museum it was interesting to see the terrible atrocities from the South African perspective. It was made the more interesting to us as we'd visited the  Concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenhau not so long ago on one of our Grand European Tours.
Unfortunately it was fast approaching five o'clock and we ran out of time and will have to return to complete our visit.
When we returned to the Kimberley Backpackers our room was waiting for us. It was the usual Backpacker room but with an unusual ensuite shower and toilet which were actually in the bedroom with only a small dressing screen for privacy. I will enjoy watching Ros shower tomorrow. The room also has the usual overloaded electrical wiring.
We had our pre-dinner drink sitting outside the pub below the hostel when fellow drinkers pointed to a  beautiful rainbow in the sky a perfect arc of many colours.
Sometimes we find good and interesting places to eat and tonight we ate at Perseverance Tavern the oldest pub in Cape Town dating back to 1808 when travellers disembarking from ships at Cape Town’s Castle stayed at the Tavern in Slave’s Walk. They now serve good pub grub and we enjoyed an exceptional Springbok Pie.