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Journey to the land of Windows desktops: visiting the canola fields

Posted on: August 20, 2012

Friday
10 August
2012

I made a long weekend out of last Thursday’s public holiday, and spent Friday exploring the canola fields and farms around Malmesbury.

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Tagged accident, animals, beautiful, canola, cape town, clouds, farm, favourites, fields, holiday, landscape, nature, photography, plants & flowers, sky, trees, weekends, winter days

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One Night in Cape Town at the Grand Arena

Posted on: August 13, 2012

Thursday 09 August 2012

Oppikoppi boasted a pretty impressive line-up of artists this year, and luckily for those of us staying in Cape Town over the festival weekend, the organisers put together a day-long concert featuring some of them: Bullet for my Valentine, Seether, Enter Shikari, The Eagles of Death Metal, KONGOS and Van Coke Kartel at Grand West’s Grand Arena.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged afrikaans, american, cape town, concert, eagles of death metal, enter shikari, evenings, gigs & festivals, grand arena, grand west casino, guitars, international act, ixus, kongos, light, one night in cape town, photography, point and shoot, rock, seether, van coke kartel

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Sunday stopover in Stellenbosch

Posted on: August 1, 2012

Sunday
29 July
2012

One reason that I love this time of year is that the magnolias are blooming everywhere, especially out in Stellenbosch.

We took the scenic route through Stellenbosch while heading home from Gordon’s Bay. It was a really beautiful afternoon, and the church in Kerk Str with it’s amazing garden looked particularly pretty.

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Tagged architecture, cape town, church, macro, nature, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, south africa, stellenbosch, trees, weekends, winter days

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Bikini Beach Books in Gordon’s Bay

Posted on: July 31, 2012

Sunday
29 July
2012

The first and last time I visited Gordon’s Bay’s Bikini Beach Books – an old beachfront house overflowing with books – was around 2 years ago, so I figured a revisit was long overdue…

EDIT: I’ve been getting loads of random emails asking me about books…to clarify for anyone who’s uncertain: I’m not affiliated with this book shop in any way, I just like visiting it! Please stop mailing me about books you want me to send you…thanks!

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Tagged beach, bikini beach books, books, cape town, family, favourites, gordon's bay, harbour, out in the country, outdoors, photography, sea, shop, south africa, special places, store, treasure, trees, weekends, winter days

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Some birds on Table Mountain

Posted on: July 25, 2012

Went for a walk on top of the mountain the other day and saw these two lovely birds…

I’d seen that little Sunbird before on the same bush – obviously it’s his spot. The raven was one of several flying over the rocks, the tourists and the skyline in a manner that was downright majestic.