sitting at god's high table Frank Barrett tastes South Africa's heady delights on a flying visit to Cape Town

From: Mail on Sunday | Date: February 6, 2005| Author: FRANK BARRETT | Copyright information

THE first glimpse of Cape Town's Table Mountain is one of those solid-gold travel experiences to rank alongside that first sight of the Taj Mahal, New York's skyline or Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Table Mountain is big much bigger than the photographs suggest and nearly always decorated with strands of wispy cloud like a bad Bobby Charlton comb-over.

A great city must have a big sight and Cape Town definitely has one of these. But if people had it on their 'places I must see befo...

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