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There are many reasons to visit the Mother City. We have the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, a whole host of incredible beaches, the Waterfront, Table Mountain, the Constantia wine route, a penguin colony, antique stores aplenty, colourful street performers, a laughably good exchange ... Nintendo Memories[caption id="attachment_479" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="My hero."][/caption]
I think about videogames constantly. As a child in Cape Town, it was not the tennis courts or the soccer fields which called my name, but the incessant beeping of my Famicon [Nintendo] console. From a very young age, my calling was the arcades. I ... The great cape party[caption id="attachment_476" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Happy Happy!"][/caption]
Even after severe warnings that I would be facing imminent drugging and sexual abuse from the predators that would be lurking and circling like sharks in the feeding frenzy that is Long Street, I still went. Driven by pure determination to spend my first New ... No rest for the wicked[caption id="attachment_469" align="alignnone" width="245" caption="Toast time!"][/caption]
People tend to differ greatly in their opinions as to what constitutes the optimal utilization of vacation time. My parents, for instance, take charge of their leisure time much in the same way as the SS took charge of German citizens during the Second World ... Christmakuah[caption id="attachment_472" align="alignnone" width="201" caption="The lights are lovely..."][/caption]
The festive season is over. Millions of turkeys around the world sacrificed their lives to gallantly fill our lunchboxes with leftovers for weeks to come. Countless pine trees fell to become bauble-holders for the great decoration-frenzied masses. Billions of tons of litter was ... My guide to Camps Bay[caption id="attachment_465" align="alignnone" width="250" caption="Capital of the gorgeous and stylish"][/caption]
Cape Town is the beauty capital of South Africa. The ratio of models sashaying down the streets, nibbling morsels of sushi in restaurants and frolicking in their natural habitats (shopping malls),far outnumbers the amount of us mere mortals, dawdling by to ... Christmas revelry[caption id="attachment_460" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Running from change"][/caption]
This is the start of Christmas. Our office braai begins in T-minus two hours and fourteen minutes. I have been looking forward to this particular braai for over two weeks, counting the days and hours as they slowly rolled by. We have chosen a ... Lions Head[caption id="attachment_456" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="try climbing that."][/caption]
The first time I arrived at the mother city, I went on many Cape Town tours around the city. First on my list was to see the renowned table cloth hanging over the illustrious pride of Cape Town…Table Mountain. Those in the know…scientists to ... Confounding technical specifications[caption id="attachment_453" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="A great time"][/caption]
My work presents me with many copywriting challenges, which I relish. This is of course, all good and well, as long as I am capable of living up to the tasks assigned to me. I was recently heavily critiqued on a body of work ... Different Strokes[caption id="attachment_450" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Red or White? Make mine... Wine!"][/caption]
Friday night, I enjoyed a great home cooked dinner hosted by Nomonde, a new friend who is a qualified winemaker at a popular distillery here in Cape Town.
Over dinner among other things, we discussed the flexibility in which wine ...
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