1. Cape Town Carnival (24 March) This is one big street party, taking place along the Fan Walk and featuring magnificent floats and a variety of musical genres. This year’s theme is Cape-to-Cairo. 2. Cape Town Festival (18 – 21 March) Not to be confused with Cape Town Carnival, the Cape Town festival is [...]
It’s Leap Day today – the 29th February 2012. Today is the day women can go against tradition and ask a man to marry her… If he refuses, he is supposed to pay a penance! So why do we have a Leap Year every four years? It’s actually a corrective measure to make sure the [...]
Always a feast for the senses, 2012’s Design Indaba Expo showcases only bespoke South African designs of the highest quality across all design disciplines such as: advertising, architecture, craft, décor, food, film, fashion, graphic design, interior design, jewellery, new media, publishing, product design, visual media and more! It’s an all-in-one creative stop celebrating quintessentially South [...]
We have over 40 swimming spots around the Cape Peninsula, but here are our Top 5 less frequented places to escape to and enjoy a refreshing dip: – Zandvlei: Bet you never thought of swimming in this lovely estuary that starts at Muizenberg and creates the Zandvlei Nature Reserve? Its water is tested monthly and [...]