Posts Tagged ‘v&a waterfront’

Festivities and Events at the V&A Waterfront

The V&A Waterfront has something for everyone – young, old, local or leisure guests – with entertainment for the whole family; we’re certain you’ll find something to suit your festive cheer! Activities, live shows as well as interactive kid entertainment and art exhibitions are only a few of the listed events. We’ve done all the hard [...]

Master of the Trade Routes

Master of Trade Route Culinary Challenge

With 27 restaurants and 5 coffee shops and deli’s taking part in the Master of the Trade Routes Culinary Challenge in the V&A Waterfront, simply eating the designated dishes entitles you to be a judge in the People’s Choice Award, with a chance to win meal vouchers and an invite to the Gala Event. This winter [...]

VOLVO OCEAN RACE COMES TO CAPE TOWN

Volvo Ocean Race 2011 - Alicante - photo Ian Roman

Cape Town is the first port of call for the Volvo Ocean Race after departing from Alicante in Spain on the 29 October.  This is considered to be the toughest team sport in the world contested by crews of 11 professional sailors in temperatures ranging from -15 to +40ºC. In addition, since no fresh produce [...]

TOP 5 ART EXHIBITIONS IN CAPE TOWN THIS AUGUST

Tretchikoff: Dying-Swan

1. See the much talked about Tretchikoff Exhibition at Iziko South African National Gallery and decide for yourself whether he was an artistic genius or commercial king of kitsch. Or both! On until 25 September.    2. If you haven’t visited Casa Labia in Main Road Muizenberg yet, then their Intimate Surfaces exhibition presented by [...]

FROM RATS TO RICHES IN THE V&A WATERFRONT

V&A Waterfront

Now overlooked by multi-million Rand apartments and Cape Grace, the old harbour office in the V&A Waterfront, dating back to the late 1800s, has a role in history that might make you a little squeamish. The date is sometime between 1900 and 1902 and the futile Anglo-Boer War is devastating South Africa. It’s a war [...]

THE HIGH LIFE BY HELICOPTER

Helicopter over Cape Town

A man waved his wife and friends goodbye as they took off from the V&A Helipad for a flip around the peninsula. When asked why he didn’t go with them he said, “I won’t go on a boat because I can’t swim, so I won’t get into that helicopter because I can’t fly!” That kind [...]


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