Sunnier St James'

It may look nice and Sunny but I wouldn't have wanted to get off the train here!

Instead of a bus trip, and against some advice, we took the train over to Simon Town. It's a lovely seafront journey but it does pass through some of the less celebrated areas.

We were told to get a 1st class ticket (by a quirk of South Africa Railways there's only 1st or 3rd class) but Pinar held us up and we were so late that we just had to jump on the nearest carraige before the train pulled out. It was third class - about the same as a London Underground tube! Dirty and dangerous.

The people on there couldn't have been nicer to the two token white travellers and we got to the African penguin colony in one piece. There's thousands of them just lying around the beach and it's fine to just go up and take photos.

Most white people use their cars so we were pretty much a minority of 2 for the whole journey which was an unusual and quite liberating feeling.