kalk bay lazy day

Kalk Bay is just dandy. Spend a Sunday browsing over old antiques, looking through second hand clothes and just soaking some winter sun up along the harbour pier. Make sure you grab a croissant or a quiche and a loaf of bread to take home at the unpretentious Olympia café bakery, just around the corner from the original café (almost opposite Cape to Cuba, which is a whole other story).

The bakery is open early and you only need to walk through the red door and inhale in through your nose to know you’ll leave with something fresh, warm and delicious in your hand and later, in your belly. If you like vino, buy some wine pressed from the grapes grown in the tiny vineyard behind the bakery. Add this to a loaf of the best ciabatta in the peninsula and some brie from the mini-deli, hire one of the bakery’s bicycles, peddle through the salty air and just… breathe.

(the loaves literally sell like hotcakes, I could hardly photograph them without them moving off the shelves)