The day of the local municipal elections – Wednesday, 18 May 2011 – was declared a public holiday. Having done our civic duty even before breakfast by having our thumbnails marked with ultraviolet ink (to prevent double-voting) and casting our ballots at the local town hall, we took advantage of the fabulous weather to head…
During mom-in-law’s recent whirlwind visit to Cape Town, we took her all over the Cape Peninsula. One of the destinations on our list was the newly opened Green Point Urban Park. We’d visited here for a brief walkabout in April last year, during the run-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, when the work on…
A couple of weeks ago, my Capetonian blogfriend Helen wrote a post on her blog about a series of unusual sculptures that had suddenly appeared on the Sea Point Promenade. Naturally, we had to check them out for ourselves. So, one bright and beautiful blue-sky Sunday morning, we rustled up two friends, and went for…
Finally, after waiting in the Visitor Centre for a while, 12h00 came around. Clutching our little ticket stubs (they had run out of the wristbands they’d been using so far – Darn! I wanted one of those!), we joined the large and excited crowd that pushed and shoved its way through the narrow gate. We…
Last Saturday morning (15 May) dawned bright and beautiful. I had heard somewhere that the Visitor Centre at the Green Point Stadium – sorry, that should be the Cape Town Stadium, which is its official name – was running its last series of tours, at 10h00, 12h00 and 14h00 that day. The next week, the…
Friends of ours who live in Green Point invited us for an impromptu Good Friday lunch at their new apartment. From their balcony, we had a lovely view of the new stadium – I still tend to call it the Green Point stadium, because it’s more or less in the same place as the old…
Before Christmas last year, we had a scrumptious late-afternoon dinner at Café Neo at 129 Beach Road, Green Point, with good friends of ours. Johann is my ex-boss and Janice is his partner-for-life, and they have just returned from New Zealand. As Café Neo is dog-friendly, their beautiful, friendly border collie Blew lay underneath our…
Grains of Sand 