Cape Town, My City.

We went surfing the other day, in the notorious area of Muizenberg. It’s generally not the Great Whites that you have to watch out for there, it’s the Great Wides, the boards and the tourists who assume that they own the beach.
My other, much braver, half had decided he wanted to learn to surf – [...]

Down here in Cape Town, it seems that the infamous February heat is here to stay. It is this time of the year that I give up on pretending that being female means you that don’t sweat. Not the best time for a Cape Town tour. You want the truth, the whole truth and nothing [...]

Cape Town keeps as warm, very warm these days. The heat has climbed to 34 degrees centigrade and the bleeding mountain won’t stop burning! How can a man like me enjoy shopping in Cape Town if the Waterfront burns down? Well, it’s on the water so the chances are slim, but the threat looms. My [...]

It’s hot. I’m not talking slightly balmy, I’m talking start sweating when you wake up and don’t stop until ten o’clock tonight-hot. Jip, the dreaded February heat is upon us and there is not much we can do about it except hide inside air-conditioned buildings.
On the plus side, it’s good for the grapes. At [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cape town. Accommodation in Cape Town, Steven-style. The Four Seasons. My home and eventual hub of all roach activity in the Western Cape. I have lived in the city for close to five years now and I will never become used to these disgusting creatures. We [my girlfriend and I] begun renting this ‘lovely’ abode [...]