The very best job in the world

Recently I guided a fantastic walk up Table Mountain with a group of Swedes. It was great fun to be with them because they were energetic and enthusiastic.

They all work in the wine industry in a wonderful country so I thought they had a pretty good work life. I was therefore a little taken aback when at our lunch-stop, someone said to me “Wow! You have the very best job in the world”.

And as the day wore-on and we were treated to the sight of the very first Disa uniflora of the year I began to be reminded . . .

And then we saw a determined cloudlet skidding across the mountains toward the Atlantic Ocean, peering down at the coastal villages and the rocky shores

and then I knew that they had been correct – I do have the very best job in the world!