What is it about seeing the ultimate – highest, longest, deepest, farthest, etc. – that makes some people giddy? When we decided to add Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope to our list, I was excited. In fact, I was more excited about that than anything else. Well, almost. I was really, very excited about having a drink in the highest pub in Africa – but that’s for...

We were undecided about whether to go to Cape Point that Sunday, as Ian suggested, but now I can’t remember why. On a map of Cape Town, Ian showed us the route he had outlined for us to take from the city to the Cape of Good Hope, the south westernmost point of the continent. We would be passing through Camps Bay, Hout Bay, Chapman’s Peak Drive, Simon’s Town and Cape Point. A scenic...