Hermanus

A wonderful little coastal town about an hours drive from Cape Town, which can at the same time, have both the tranquillity you come to expect of life in the village and yet when you want, quite the bustling night life. Residents there will complain bitterly about the lack there of but with a population of about 20, and more than 5 pubs/clubs to choose from, I fail to see the problem?

One good thing about this time of year is that although it may be the coldest, it is also whale season in Hermanus, a time when entire pods of whales come to the bay to mate for a few weeks and then return to wherever it is they came from. Even though it was far off in the distance and it was only a fin, for a brief moment I too saw the whales!
I love Hermanus, if not for the over protective residents it would be perfect, but what is it that these people don’t understand? Tourists put the food on your plate! Visitors are what keep your little town going fools! So stop with the attitude and start welcoming ‘strangers’ into your nightclubs instead of looking for your next victim to break a pool cue on (hasn’t happened to me yet), your parents are more than happy to see newcomers and charge them over the top prices for meals and everything else, so next time… smile.

Another thing, I have always been amused with the name Hermanus, the other day my not so normal cousin reminded me of a sign we had seen as kids, it was a municipal sign that read: 'Keep Hermanus clean' but one of the letters had been removed making for a very laugh out loud kind of situation.