Cape Town, My City.

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 War. Every stray second is accounted for and employed for [...]

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 created from wrapping paper, unwanted toys, broken champagne bottles and dead pine [...]

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 work, dragging our feet and squeezing past each other at the mall or vegetating [...]

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 forest that I hope will not be too windy, as the [...]

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 be precise, explain the table cloth that often hangs over the [...]