9500km - from Dresden to Cape Hope

Hello to everyone in Germany and any follower in the world, here´s my first Update. Unfortunatly the wifi-connection isn´t that good on weekends, so there will be not that much photos. But i´m sitting in a nice café (The Mojito) enjoying a good breakfast and well, i´m fine, just to answer your probably first question :D

The journey to ZA startet with the estimated adventure. Getting early enough up to get my train to munich in Dresden, i arrived at the main station, just to see, that nearly every connection was cancelled. Woohoo! 30cm fresh snow and about -10°C did their job very well. But what i´m telling you ... :D
For my fortune (or my bad luck, we will see) there was one connection that wasn´t cancelled, a Regional Express to nuremberg. So i started hunting after the train and got on it, just a minute before it pulled out. After sun rised up every passenger saw a fantastic landscape. Fresh snow, blue sky and trees covered by snow like you want to have on christmas. But as we got to reichenbach, something curios happend. The train stopped instantly in the nowhere between two small villages. Nothing happend, lights went out and it was getting cold inside. Hmmmm...?
After about half an hour the locomotive driver told us over the speakers, that the machine was broken down and we have to get out of the train instantly. There will be a train, that is taken us back to reichenbach, where we have to look up for a new connection. Sensationell! Deutsche Bahn as we know it ...
So we headed out of the train, waiting in the snowy prairie for the announced train. You can imagine i wasn´t really prepared, cause why take a big winter jacket to south africa :D Well, but things went on and we got back to reichenbach where another train was waiting getting us to Hof. In Hof they got an extra train started for us, getting us to nuremberg. But if you think, things getting better now, you´re acting amiss. Someone really intelligent tried to get over the rails between hof and nurenberg, stumbeled and was gahtered by a passing train. Congratulations!
So it took us about 3hrs to get to nuremberg and the first time i worried about getting in time to munich. But lucky as i am, the ice to munich started 10 minutes after we arrived in nuremberg. So i got to the airport about 3hrs later, just 15 minutes before the cloakroom (where you give up your luggage) closed. The flight was delayed for one hour, but i got it, nothing more counts :)
The flight was really good, without any turbulences. I admit that i was the only one who got light evening meal two times, cause i was very hungry. But montezumas revenge hitted me instantly :D Damn, thats why i got no sleep and was arriving really fucked up!

And then the first shock. It was raining cats and dogs in capetown. Not the weather i expected :D But everything went on really easy. I went from the airport getting my car in cape town, a new Kia Seranto (built 2009) with mp3-radio. Whooohooo! Just bought some cds which will accompany me through za. But there are some good radio-stations too, e.g. Big Five FM playing house music all day long, even songs (fidget, rave, electrotrash) you will never here in germany on any broadcasting radio channel. South african people have a really good music taste :D

After i got something for lunch i was driving around, just to acclimatise driving on the the left side of the road, which worked really good. Just to get you envy, i have to tell you, the price for gas here. Its about 60 cents per liter. Please don´t try to imagine my style of driving, i don´t want you to sorrow about me more then you do already :D
First i visited the university of cape town looking up for the possibility to study here and what shell i say, they got a really impressive business school. Lets see, if i can solicit to it ;)
Then i got to my hostel, booking a single room for three nights. I just did this to get a good sleep, to rest a little bit, after this hard journey which got me about 40hrs awake. Its the oldest and only awardwinning hostel in cape town, which is fully booked every night. So i was lucky again :D

In the afternoon i had two alternatives. Falling asleep or doing my first trip. Of course i took the second choice. And what do you do if you visit cape town the first time. Going up the table mountain, visiting waterfront or heading to the beach? Of course not. You drive to simons town looking up the penguins colony :D
Penguins are the most lovely animals in the world and it was exciting to see them in real nature (when i load up the pictures and videos i took, you will understand me). The manager of the hostel told me a really nice route getting to cape peninsuale. So i got to cape hope and visited the nature reservate there, seeing baboons, oystrichs and antilops in wild life. Getting back to cape town i drove an amzing street along the coast (just look up the pictures). Unfortunatly the battery of my camera got out of energy, so i couldn´t make a picture of the most incredible sunset i´ve ever seen, but if i say sth. like this about a sunset, you can truly believe me ;)

In the evening i met all the other guests in the hostel, and well, instead of going to bed early, we drunk a lot of beers and wine :D I dont know, if it is a good sign, but the first drinking song i learned in my life was an australian one :D
"He´s a bastard and true blue, trying to get things through and through, ..." But at one a clock i was that wasted, i fell asleep and sleept about 11hrs, ugggh.

Yesterday i just walked around cape town central, doing a little bit sightseeing and getting some things arranged. I visited the town hall, v&a waterfront, the cape town worldcup soccer stadium and getting through hundreds of shoppingmalls just to get an imagination of this beautiful city. The architecture isn´t that good. The skyscrapers in downtown aren´t that beautiful, but around every corner you can find hidden treasure of the dutch colonial time, this connection is simply amazing. I also visited the aquarium of cape town which was really big and amazing too. Unfortunatly there was no tigershark ;)

On the evening i had my first "braai", the south african version of a bbq, and after some glasses of wine, we headed out to "Obs Festival". "Obs" just stands for Observatory, the student area of cape town. We, that were marion, verena and me. Two nice girls from Munich and Mayence (mainz), that are unfortunatly leaving this week. But they told me a lot of spots to visit in south africa, aside the tourist guide routes :) We got back at one a clock, but i didn´t wanted to go to bed, so i got the "Fiction". I think, many nights in this club will follow ... :D

So thats what i did on my first days here, tommorow i will take a wine tour and on tuesday i want to go the townships, of course guided ;) After that, i will give you a new update, probably with some photos :)

I think the text is long enough for the moment so i will finish at that point. I already got a south african simcard, but no telephon number. I will tell you, after i did my RICA-Aggrement.

Best regards to everyone, Sven!

PS: Forget everything i wrote about uploading-issues, i´ve reached it! Just check out the dia section and click it. There are no descriptions to the photos till now, but maybe i will add it the next days ;)