Coming Down by Francesco Carrozzini starring Singtank’s Joséphine and Alexandre de la Baume. Why I like this clip is the design of the house, the interiors and the view. This video was inspired by interviews with Brigitte Bardot. Joséphine De La Baume has a new album out. We hope to show it soon in our Tuesday…
Suffragette starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep
Yesterday I sat in a traffic jam in Bakoven a block from my house. Camps Bay is known for terrible traffic jams on beautiful evenings or over peak season but at the tail end of winter…? Apparently the jam was caused by construction to some mansion in Bakoven creating a STOP/GO. This winter Camps Bay…
The Spur Mountain Bike Classic When: Sunday, 27 September 2015 Where: Nooitgedacht Estate, R304 Stellenbosch How much: From R90 to R200 depending on distance and time of entry Distances: • 0.5km, 1.5km & 3km for small children (10 & under) • 13km funride for children & novices • 30km funride for beginner/intermediate riders • 45km challenge…
The passage to our suite was a maze through an ancient milkwood forest. The suite, steeped in luxury. A beautifully decorated lounge, leading to our private patio. Only the large glass doors in the lounge, bedroom and en suite bathroom separating us from the most spectacular fynbos we had ever seen. Our four poster bed…
Spring Day By Amy Lowell Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The sunshine pours in at the bath-room window and bores through the water in the bath-tub in lathes and planes of greenish-white. It cleaves the water into flaws like a…
Tuesday Holiday Tunes: Christopher Owens – Nothing More Than Everything To Me
Read the following poem in English and then in Afrikaans. How amazing is this? The poem was shown to us by Len Keating during our isiXhosa lesson. Len’s new lessons will start shortly, if you are interested contact len@africanvoices.co.za MY STORIES BEGIN AS LETTERS My pen is my wonderland. Word water in my hand. In my…
Monday Holiday Movies: 45 Years starring Charlotte Rampling
What is happening in and around Cape Town: STBB 2Keep-a-Breast MTB Challenge When: 10 October 2015 Where: Overgaauw Wine Estate, Stellenbosch. Distances: 5km, 12km, 30km, 45km, 60km Starting times from: 07:00am Website: http://www.stbb.co.za/mtb-challenge/
Tuesday Holiday Tunes: Passenger – Let Her Go
Monday Holiday Movies: Ricki And The Flash starring Meryl Streep
What’s happening in and around Cape Town: The CAPE GATE WINE FESTIVAL The Cape Gate Wine Festival, which takes place on Friday, 21 and Saturday, 22 August offers wine lovers the chance to taste and buy wine from all over South Africa from the 20 wineries exhibiting at the event. A new addition this year…
Everyone from South Africa should watch this. I love it! Well done Craig. Quite a White Ou – Ndingumlungu
If you have £350 million to spare, you can buy Berlusconi’s luxury villa which is for sale in Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda. The super luxury villa boasts 68 rooms, 68 hectares of gardens and grounds, 6 swimming pools, an amphitheatre, a fully functional artificial volcano and a dock that grants full access to the Mediterranean.
Tuesday Holiday Tunes: FKA twigs – Two Weeks
Monday Holiday Movies: SPECTRE