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    Cape Town Mon Amie!
    Cape Town Mon Amie!
    Cape Town Mon Amie!
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    Cape Town Mon Amie!

    By R. Paul Stevens

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    An informal and passionate look at Cape Town by a Capetonian who has been privileged to live in this stunning location all his life.

    Often simple is best and the author explores how a Capetonian actually goes about enjoying his beautiful city.

    Cape Town Mon Amie!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Paul Stevens
    Release dateSep 24, 2012
    ISBN9781301910168
    Cape Town Mon Amie!
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    R. Paul Stevens

    There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.

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      Cape Town Mon Amie! - R. Paul Stevens

      Cape Town

      Mon Amie!

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      All Rights reserved © 2012 Paul Stevens

      Introduction

      When I compiled a list of over 50 links for all the topics in this article I simply came to the conclusion that they were OUTRAGEOUS. Yes, it is outrageous that there can be so many places of such amazing beauty all in one place called Cape Town, or within a 60 minute drive of Cape Town. Image after image on any of the links simply overwhelms one. After checking these out, who in their right mind can put up anything other than a very feeble protest that they don’t want to visit this amazing place? Table Mountain is now one of the Seven Wonders of Nature but if you ask me they have it wrong. Yep. It should be the entire town and surrounds of Cape Town that qualifies and even the name Seven Wonders doesn’t do it justice. How about Jewel of Planet Earth?

      Don’t buy this article if this is your first visit to Cape Town.

      This is because on your first visit you are going to do all the MUST DO things such as take the tour of the city in the Red Bus, go up the Table Mountain cableway, go to Robben Island, visit the Winelands, shop at the V& A waterfront and dine at fine restaurants.

      No, this article is for those of you who have fallen in love with this beautiful city and are returning for a second or even third time. Heck, there are people who fall so in love with Cape Town they come back EVERY year and may end up buying a holiday property here, or even ending up living here. As for me, I am a Capetonian and have lived here virtually all of

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