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New Sun Star shines over Cape Town!
A new art installation called Sun Star on Signal Hill is attracting attention, despite poor publicity about the latest World Design Capital 2014 project, and is the second contentious outdoor art...
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Lion’s Head firefighters Sweet Service and Celtic Cove Sour Service Awards!
The Sweet Service Award goes to the 130 Cape Town Fire Department firefighters and the Volunteer Wildfire Services, which were instrumental in combating the fire on Lion’s Head and Signal Hill on...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 15/16 December
Tourism, Food, and Wine new headlines * Etihad Airways and SAA have announced one of the benefits of their ‘strategic partnership’, in that SAA is commencing flights between Johannesburg and Abu...
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City of Cape Town Sweet & Sour Service Awards! (reposted)
The Sweet Service Award goes to the City of Cape Town , for the collection of refuse on Christmas and New Year’s Day, despite these being very special public holidays. The Sour Service Award goes...
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Cape Town retains design focus, despite World Design Capital 2014 having come...
Despite Cape Town’s year as World Design Capital 2014 having come to an end, its design legacy lives on, not only with design projects created for last year’s event, but with future design projects...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 16 March
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * The first World Congress of Nephrology finishes at the Cape Town International Convention Centre today, the first time that the Congress is held in Africa. A...
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John Platter launches ‘My Kind of Wine’!
John Platter’s name is synonymous with the wine industry, having created the Platter’s Wine Guide 36 years ago with wife Erica. His surname is still linked to the Guide by name, even though he has sold...
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Cape Town bursting at the seams over the Festive Season!
Today the peak of the Festive Season comes to an end, as visitors from Johannesburg and other parts of the county and the world return home, to start work on Monday. Cape Town put on its best dress,...
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Cape Town in the Tourism spotlight on German 3sat TV channel!
Earlier this evening German TV channel 3sat broadcast a flattering 45-minute documentary on Cape Town, entitled ‘Reisen in Ferne Welten: Kapstadt’ (Travel in far worlds: Cape Town). Cape Town is one of...
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Opulent The Silo Hotel in the V&A Waterfront elevates Cape Town hospitality...
Ten days ago, on its third day of operation, hotelier and writer Llewellyn Lambert, architect Jan de Wet, and I went to visit The Silo Hotel in the commercial side of the V & A Waterfront. We were...
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Lion’s Head to close completely to hikers early in 2019!
One of the strangest news stories I saw last week was the announcement by SA National Parks that Lion’s Head will be closed to climbers from 7 January to 15 February 2019. The popular hiking trail...
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German ZDF TV ‘Das Traumschiff’ episode ‘Kapstadt’ is good and bad PR for...
I looooove ‘Das Traumschiff’, a German TV series that has been broadcast regularly in the past 20 years or so, so I was doubly excited when our city ‘Kapstadt’ was the focus of the Boxing Day 2020...
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Lindt adds a colourful touch to its Hello South Africa chocolate slab range...
Lindt has announced the launch of new Hello South Africa packaging for its Hello Chocolate Slab range, with colourful packaging and interesting ingredient combinations for its three products...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 147 of Level 1, 24 February 2022
Thursday 24 February 2022, Day 147 of Level 1 Corona Lockdown Gratitude #grateful for a well-organized busy day; for four hours of writing and working this morning, preparing for two Status meetings;...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 158 of Level 1, 7 March 2022
Monday 7 March 2022, Day 158 of Level 1 Corona Lockdown Gratitude #grateful for a busy day, getting my client work done by 9h30, to leave for the City; for a 12 hour tour with my lovely young German...
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