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 Day on May 22nd and the garden’s 100th birthday on July 1st.
While I spent my birthday feeling miserably with flu, I really enjoyed the day before which included a walk around the beautiful roses at Chart Farm.
Saturday was a night of intense energy and sweaty claustrophobia courtesy of 3 of Cape Town’s power trios, The Future Primitives, The Dollfins and Black Lung as well as probably the loudest duo in the country, the epic Make-Overs from Pretoria.
Last year I spent a weekend in Knysna and have been dying to go back ever since; 2 weeks ago my wish was granted when I once again joined Jess and Leon for a wonderful getaway along the beautiful Garden Route.
There had been warnings all week that a huge storm was to hit Cape Town on the first weekend of June, and the warnings had been right. The rain was almost relentless and Saturday was was a night to be spent at home under a warm blanket – not a lot of gigs could have persuaded me otherwise, but Fox Comet‘s album launch was something that simply could not be missed…
