It’s been years since she’s last been in her motherland. A while since she’s seen Cape Town in all its splendour. Not the watered down tourist version people see in guides. The fancy hotels at the V & A, Robben Island, the cable way at Table mountain. Nor Clifton or Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Of all the fine offerings Cape Town can dish none of it can compare to the hawkers at their finest, rhyming away in their hustling.
Her aimless wander brought her right to the place that holds more memories to the average Capetonian than any of the must see venues tourists wish to see. The place that year end shopping dreams were made of. Die parare. After which your family would proceed to the Company Gardens and eat slap chips and drink Cabana juice on the grass.
“How much are your peaches per pound?” She asks one of the vendors with the deity of the queen herself. Imagining the succulent fruit burst with flavour in her mouth.
She pays for it and walks away with the bags. For a brief moment she forgot all her cares. Home will never be the same without her mom but a little taste of the parade reminded her of days gone by.
This post was part of a creative writing exercise between two of my Cape Town blog tribe and I. 1 Topic + 3 Bloggers.
A bit of a pun with “The End”. Nice one Celeste!
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Hi there, thank you for your comment and stopping by.
I’d like to point out that where I’m from we use UK English and the spelling differs quite a bit from US English. This may be the spelling reality you speak of. But I do thank you for pointing this out. A writer can never be too complacent where spelling is concerned.
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