Here's Jon. A really sweet Brit who toured me around Cape Town. I met Jon on Scott's and my first night in Cape Town. After a driving tour past Signal Hill, Table Mountain, Camp's Bay and Clifton, Scott and I did a tour of Cape Town's "gay village" starting at Manhattan's, a popular restaurant/patio bar hangout. Unfortunately, not much cruising going on there. (As you can imagine, our interest in meeting folks, guys in particular, was pretty high at this point. We had, after all, been in the bush for almost three weeks with no one except each other for company.) Manhattan's, situated on a corner, was more of a friendly hangout, with a bustling restaurant section in addition to a bar area, all open to shady side patios overlooking two quiet, elegant neighborhood streets filled with european like store fronts and residentials homes. Perfect for beers and nachos [don't ask. we were jones'ing for bad bar food I guess,]) We ran back to our B&B the Dunkley House, changed into evening wear (ie. scrapped the shorts, slipped on jeans and t-shirts.) and headed back down to the gay village, but this time, to The Bronx. Like most dimly lit, packed, loud gay bars, the Bronx was pretty cruisey, but the guys were friendly (we met about a dozen nice locals, including Jon here,) the beers were really really cheap (in fact, Cape Town was out most affordable stop the whole journey,) and the music pretty cool. (Why is it the music never matches the videos being played on all the monitors. such a disconnect. Not helpful when you're drunk.) Jon and I talked, flirted and hung out most the evening. Scott and I split around two am, headed home. Before we went, though, I invited Jon to dinner the next night. We ended up really hitting it off, making another date for Sunday where we took this photo on our tour of Chapman's Peak. Jon's a great guy. Funny. Cute. (Green green green eyes. Great smile.) Owns a cute 50's style house with a swimming pool, (housing is clearly MUCH more affordable in Cape Town,) does psychiatric counseling for a living. He's been in SA for several years and is navigating the immigration maze in the pursuit of a permanent work permit. I hope he gets it. He's a real sweetheart. PS. I will forever associate Scissor Sister's "I don't feel like dancing" with Jon. We listened to his Scissor Sisters CD a jillion times during our drives in and around Cape Town. This was on top of the other million times the Cape Town dance radion station played it! Love that song. And now there's a really great memory with it. Nice.
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