09:04 – wake up. Snooze
09:45 – wake up. Snooze
09:55 – wake up, jump out of bed not to miss breakfast, which ends at 10:00! Good thing they’re on Africa time
10:00 – place order, eat breakfast. Annelie is complaining about ear ache. Oh, and she got the results back from her last visit to Karen Hospital, all clear! Walter has left the building.
10:25 – 4th cup of coffee
10:30 – on the beach, chilling
11:23 – go for swim
11:41 – tanning
12ish – food, takes forever to arrive, bar not even busy. Deal with kak barman again
13ish – chilling
14:50 – walkies, swim
15:34 – sleeping at bungalow
16:45 – wake up, barely. Annelie goes for massage
17:25 – Wake up (again), get dressed, , I grab a Cohiba Buristo PHAT cigar and stroll down to the beach. Order a sex on the beach, change it to a double Glenn Fiddich, no ice.
17:45 – light up, whiskey arrives. Feel like a king
18:20 – Annelie joins me, watches the sunset somewhat, makes a suggestion we go swimming. Rush to the bungalow and grab our swimming gear
18:29 – in the water, coloured red from the giant red orb that is the sun. Watch the sunset in the warm water, almost totally submersed. EPIC.
18ish – Back in bungalow, shower, get dressed for dinner walk down to fancy no access restaurant built on top of sea
19:07 – have to quick talk a security guard who won’t let us even near the place. Says Annelie’s skirt is too short (it is), and we are not residents to the hotel. We convince him we only “want to look”, since I know once we get there we can get in. He reluctantly agrees to escort us.
19:13 – get to restaurant, smiling concierge invites us for dinner, “no problem” (told ya)
19:20 – bashful guard gives us “visitors passes”. I explain we understand, he’s just doing his job
Still 19ish – grab cocktails at the massive bar / entertainment area. Watch little fishes in the water below the pylons, and birds trying to catch them
19ish – play a game of pool (I win)
20:03 – move to restaurant, very posh! Seated, get welcome drink and bread, menus. We order some wine, Nederberg Sauvignon Blanc, 2008, delicious. No starters, I order the seafood platter (lobster, tuna steaks, king prawn, with basmati rice), Annelie gets the grilled rolled chicken with noodles. The restaurant is seafood Thai fusion. Taiwanese chef sends us prawn a dainty piece of prawn toast, very smartly decorated, with his compliments. This too, is delicious! Bread accompanied by freshly made peanut butter (??), crushed black olives, salted butter and olive oil. (yeah, delicious!)
20:15 – cling cling, KAMPAI! Wine goes down very well.
20:40 – food arrives, and it’s a LOT. Feel like I want to take a pictures, but afraid it may not be PC. So I don’t. Annelie and I swop out some food (probably also not PC)
21ish – the table of snobby Brits next to us are served their food. They ALL take pictures of their food. Meh.
21ish – food finished (finally! It was a lot). Drink wine
22ish – finish wine, move to check out the entertainment. The entertainment is bad. Very bad. We move to the shisha lounge, remove shoes, park on big soft couches. Lounge is very very nice, high ceiling with lots of Persian carpets covering the floor and what almost looks like a private lounge area in the middle. A woman dressed like a genie brings us menus and we order apple flavoured molasses, Turkish coffee and something with frangelico in it for Annelie.
22:15 – Shisha arrives, we are implored to “enjoy our flavour”.
22:16 – we enjoy our flavour, puffing away on apple molasses
22:30 – our drinks arrive, very spicy and hot. The lounge has a really nice ambience, with Arabic beats playing softly (and being overpowered by the terrible entertainment next door)
23:20 – all done, pay bill, retrieve shoes and walk back down the pier towards land.
23ish – we sneak up all the way to the hotel reception. Great Jumping Giant Hotels Batman, this place is a small fiefdom! Another big restaurant on the hill and more swimming pools, including a huge water tower that resembles the Afrikaans Taal monument in Paarl.
23ish – Annelie and I stroll down the long beach in the bright moonlight, sit in the sand and stare at the stars and surf.
00ish – back at the bungalow, all is quiet at the bar area.
00ish – in bed
It was a good day. We decided that instead of staying at Kendwa Rocks another day we’ll bail for the Swahili tomorrow. Nice place, perfectly located on the beach and so on, but the staff irritate us and it’s beginning to cramp our style. They can be assholes, what’s frustrating is that they don’t even try to be helpful or nice.
Highlights: Spending a romantic evening with the wife. And, she paid for everything! Xx
[G & A], out
Tick tick tock, fools on the block
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