We celebrated the start of the New Year with a leisurely stroll in the golden light of late afternoon along the Mouille Point/Green Point/Sea Point promenade, near the lighthouse with its distinctive red-and-white stripes. There is an important update on this post!
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…
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 