Archive for the holidays Category
Monday, January 5th, 2009
The great cape party
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 Years among the crazy crowd that inhabits Long Street after [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cape Town, Entertainment, General, holidays by Nomfundo
Friday, December 26th, 2008
Christmakuah
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 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cape Town, food, holidays by Steven Norris
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
My guide to Camps Bay
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 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Beach, Cape Town, Summer, holidays by Nomfundo
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
A newcomers perspective
Someone pinch me… I still cannot get over the fact that I am now a Capetonian. It all happened so fast. Let me back track and start from the top. Two months ago my life read like this:
“Girl, 24 years old, single, living in a granny-flat …with her parents, broke, stuck- [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cape Town, Entertainment, Jobs, South Africa, holidays by Nomfundo
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
This is how Yontov begins
The preparation began at 5pm, yesterday afternoon. On the menu was an assortment of foods, none of them easy to prepare.
• Chopped liver
• Roast lamb
• spinach and feta pies
• Grilled marrows
• Roast veg and potatoes.
• Chicken soup
We began with the Chopped liver. It would be my first time preparing this traditional meal and I was completely unprepared for what it [...]