Rested and ready to go after our relaxing wine tour on Day One in Cape Town, Ursula and I headed out on foot the next day (9 March 2025) to explore. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Cape Town’s City Centre (CBD—Central Business District, which is nicely situated for several reasons which I shall go into in this series. For instance, on this day we started by exploring a pedestrian shopping street just beyond our hotel’s entrance. Pictured above is that street, St. George’s Mall. All along this tree-lined, brick-paved area you’ll find shops, cafés, and street vendors hawking everything from luggage (which came in handy after our buying spree) to leather goods to clothing.
Traveler Shopping Tip of the Day: Want some great, yet incredibly affordable, clothing? Right next to the Holiday Inn Express is a wonderful clothing store called Mr Price. Technically, this Mr Price is on Adderly Street, but it’s so large that there is a St. George’s Mall entrance as well. We wound up slipping into Mr Price more than once.
We also explored another nearby pedestrian street on which we found dining establishments, bars, and cafés. This is Shortmarket Street between Bree Street, a major throughfare, and St. George’s Mall:
Our primary goal on this day was to head on over onto Government Avenue to pass by the Houses of Parliament and into the Company’s Garden. So, we reversed course, hit Adderley Street headed southwest bound, whereby we passed by the historic C. H. Pearne Building from 1903:
After that we passed by this statue of Jan Smuts:
Hanging a left onto Government Avenue takes you past the Anglican St. George’s Cathedral:
After that, heading west, you find the orginal 1884 Parliament Building:
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