oafc0000 Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Oaf World Cup Review Part 1 Wednesday - Manchester to Dubai Manchester Lounge Thursday - Dubai to Cape Town Departure Board Dubai Airport Thursday Night - Hotel and pre World Cup Night party on Long Street The hotel was really nice and was in a perfect location. Right next to the party end of Long Street. Met a women and her son at check who didn't fancy heading into town on there own at night so I offered to take them along. Long Street is packed with bars and restaurants and their was a real Mardi Gras style atmosphere and party going on. People dancing in the street, blowing horns, singing songs, dancing on cars. It was awesome and no trouble. It is exactly the thing which would end in disaster in this country. Everyone from all over the world were just going nuts together. Had a lovely meal in one of the roof top bars Wanted to stay out to the early hours but needed to get some sleep after a huge journey. Will post video of the madness once it has uploaded to youtube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Oaf World Cup Review Part 2 Friday -Table Mountain, South Africa vs Mexico at the Waterfront Fans Fest and Francevs Uruguay at the Cape Town Greepoint Stadium. Decided to get up early (Vuvuzelas going offeverywhere all night ) and get to Table Mountain as early as possible to get tothe top of Table Mountain as the queues can get very long as day moveson. It was the right call as I was the first up with noqueue. The cable car rotates as it goes up the mountain so everyonegets a great view. The views are amazing and photos could never doit justice. I wanted to scale it but being on my own and having noone to climb it with so it wasn't wise/ Afterwards I picked up my tickets for the games Iwas going to watch live. They turned out to be pretty good seats. The tried to get in the main fans fest at theGrand Parade but it was full so I headed down to the Waterfront fans fest whichwas awesome. Met 20 girls ( and a couple of lads) from Cape Town whoadopted me for the day. Which was fun. The atmosphere wasincredible. Was great when South Africa scored Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Then headed down to the Green Point Stadium forthe France vs Uruguay. Atmosphere was again fantastic, Vuvuzelasgoing off everywhere... Pitty the match was a drab but tenseaffair. The French are not very good and Uruguay are a one trickpony. A very enjoyable day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forte_Baby Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Looks good mate as i said on the thread was quality would love to go back over myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Pre World Cup party on the night before the World Cup started http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PE_qzG7HpY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Glad to see you had a good time jefe. Table mountain wasn't really worth the climb when I did it (it was cloudy by the time I got to the top) and that day at least 2 people got held up at knife point on the way up- so definately not one to climb on your own. I read that you missed your chance of going over to Robben Island- that's a shame it was well worth it. I stayed down that end of Long street too- it was quality when the world cup wasn't on I can only imagine what it was like with it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Glad to see you had a good time jefe. Table mountain wasn't really worth the climb when I did it (it was cloudy by the time I got to the top) and that day at least 2 people got held up at knife point on the way up- so definately not one to climb on your own. I read that you missed your chance of going over to Robben Island- that's a shame it was well worth it. I stayed down that end of Long street too- it was quality when the world cup wasn't on I can only imagine what it was like with it on. A 14 year old died on Table Mountain during the world cup from the states. Lost his footing as he was hiking up with his parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daznathe Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 WOW. just WOW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 WOW. just WOW. And the photos don't do it justice Got so many great photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 And the photos don't do it justice Got so many great photos Looks brilliant sir, though at times it's been a tad quiet around here without you. Did you manage to find a cure for AIDS and give everybody a job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Looks brilliant sir, though at times it's been a tad quiet around here without you. Did you manage to find a cure for AIDS and give everybody a job? No but the country is coming along very well... I went to a Township and if I our government talks about our people being below the poverty line again I won't be happy... Bloody hard lives... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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