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Kapstaden till Kiruna – 11 days in Sweden: day 1

Posted on: October 5, 2017

Wed 5 October 2016 Arlanda & Uppsala I’d originally planned to go straight from Stockholm to Kiruna, but thought better play it safe and fly the next day rather than risk missing the flight. So I stayed a night … Continue reading →

Posted in personal, Photography, Travel
Tagged 747, abroad, adventure, airport, architecture, arlanda, autumn, bicycle, billingham, botanical garden, buildings, castle, cathedral, chandelier, church, cobbled street, cyclamen, daytrip, deciduous, domkyrka, europe, evenings, evergreen, favourites, gamla kyrkogard, garden, gold, gothic, graveyard, hadley pro, hostel, instagram, medieval, memories, nature, organ, outdoors, park, personal, photography, plane, plants, plants & flowers, remembering, south african, stained glass, stf jumbo stay, stockholm, sweden, travel, trees, uppsala, uppsala slott, viking, winter

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Rudimentals & Grassy Spark at Kirstenbosch

Posted on: April 4, 2017

Sun 26 March 2017 A decidedly better experience all-round than my last shoot at Kirstenbosch, the second last Summer Concert for the season featured the Rudimentals and Grassy Spark, bubble machines and all the good vibes. A great way to … Continue reading →

Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged autumn, botanical garden, cape town, evenings, events, favourites, garden, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, jumping musicians, kirstenbosch, long hair, photography, rock, rudimentals, ska, south africa, south african, texx and the city, weekends

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Zebra & Giraffe’s farewell show with Monark at Kirstenbosch

Posted on: March 23, 2016

Sun 20 March 2016 Like many I was surprised and saddened by the news of Zebra & Giraffe‘s indefinite hiatus. I’ve always liked the band, and watching them over the years they’ve grown from strength to strength and their final … Continue reading →

Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged botanical garden, cape town, crowd, evenings, farewell, farewell show, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, kirstenbosch, long hair, monark, mountains, music, nature, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, pop, rock, south africa, south african, summer concert, texx and the city, weekends, zebra & giraffe

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Kirstenbosch celebrates world biodiversity day & their 100th birthday

Posted on: July 13, 2013

22 May & 1 July 2013 I love Kirstenbosch, it’s a really beautiful place, but sadly I don’t visit that often…but free entrance is a great incentive – this is a combined post of my last 2 visits: World Biodiversity … Continue reading →

Posted in Out & about, Photography
Tagged beautiful, birds, birthday, botanical garden, cape town, close up, favourites, garden, ginkgo, golden orb weaver, kirstenbosch, leaves, macro, nature, plants & flowers, south africa, special places, spider, trees, world biodiversity day

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Daytrip to Betty’s Bay

Posted on: May 10, 2013

Tuesday 7 March 2013 Celebrating my recently-obtained freedom and joining a Joburg friend sight-seeing were good enough excuses for a little daytrip along False Bay to Betty’s Bay on Tuesday.