• I'm not crazy!

    February 23, 2024 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Ok, story time;
    When I was very little, I traveled to South Africa where my grand parents were living.
    We traveled a bit with them, and some blurred memories still remain.
    One of them was of staying at a hotel that looked like a cruise ship landed half on the shore, with portions of the dining room floor made of glass and overhanging above the crashing waves.
    It's a massive memory, but I couldn't be sure that it was real because I was really young.
    I tried hard to find this place when we prepared this trip, and finally found it in Plettenberg bay. Still looking like a cruise ship 40 years later. But no answer on the floor.
    So we made a detour on our way, waltzed in this very posh hotel as if we belonged there, straight to the furtherest room (now a lounge), but the portion of floor I remembered as glass was now carpeted.
    I needed to see that I didn't imagine the overhang.
    So we walked around into the pool area and there it was: it overhangs!
    Above rocks and crashing waves.
    I guess the glass floor became too much to upkeep...
    But it feels amazing to tic that box and complete the memory loop 40 years later.
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