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Best things to do for free

Go to the beach – at Camps Bay, Clifton or Llandudno.

Or, go to Simon’s Town and take a drive around the peninsular: you go all the way down to Muizenberg, Fishhoek and Kalk Bay, keep going and it brings you out on the other side over the mountain. Then you can take the Chapman’s Peak Drive and come out at Hout Bay. So you go from the Atlantic Ocean, over to Indian Ocean and back again. You can do it an hour – or two with a lunch stop (I’d eat at the Chapman’s Peak Hotel or the Red Herring in Noordhoek.)

Obviously the M&G did not intent to write about all the things you can do for free. While driving “through” Simon’s Town, stop at the African penguin colony, Boulder Beach. You can watch these animals for free or you can pay less than R30 to go and swim with them on their beach.