Cape Town Blog

February 26, 2009

Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2009

Filed under: Sports and Outdoor — Tags: , — Bradley Voges @ 1:50 pm

Chapmans Peak

The 2009 edition of the Cape Argus cycle tour is around the corner. For the riders there is no more time for training, the next 10 days will be spent on watching the diet, making sure your equipment is in order and getting nervous.

Whether you’re a rider, a spectator or a resident in Cape Town, the following information will be interesting to you:

Click here if you would like to see a birds eye view of the route

Click here if you need more info on starting times

Click on the following link for information on road closures

February 24, 2009

Cape Town Villas – A safe haven from life

Filed under: Cape Town Accommodation — Tags: — Charl Norman @ 2:11 pm

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Are you looking for a safe haven, away from the madness of modern life?

Does the idea of a hide-away in the fairest Cape appeal to you?

We thought it might!

Nestled at the Southern-most tip of Africa, Cape Town offers a plethora of luxury villas and hideaways for the discerning traveller, businesspeople and their families.

A select and elite range of luxury villas provide you with the perfect place to unwind.

Cape Town offers you infinite attractions and leisurely activities. From the Table Mountain Cable car, to the shopping haven of the V&A Waterfront, and the never-ending wine routes, you’ll never be bored in this beautiful landscape.

Camps Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, is the premier tourist destination in South Africa, and is magnificently located on the Atlantic Ocean, at the foot of the Twelve Apostles mountain range and adjacent to Table Mountain. Camps Bay villas offer you exquisite accommodation and spectacular views. Camps Bay is an ideal location from which to explore Cape Town – South Africa’s “Mother City”.

Camps Bay Villas adhere to the highest standards of leisure and luxury. Dotted around the region, the villas are highly desired – which explains why Camps Bay Villas are booked well in advance of the summer season.

On one side of Camps Bay, is the equally exclusive and highly up-market area of Clifton, renowned for its wind-free beaches, surrounding apartment complexes and sprawling holiday villas.

Clifton offers you a delicious, and sometimes decadent, ride through the good life. Sometimes called the “St Tropez of the Southern Hemisphere”, Clifton beach is considered one of the world’ finest beaches. Clifton rental accommodation provides you with the entrance into a playground of the world.

Rest. Relax. Revive. Cape Town’s bliss awaits you. So, book into any of the top Cape Town Villas today, and let the madness of life run away.

Greenpoint Stadium Photos

Filed under: 2010 — Tags: — Bradley Voges @ 8:35 am

Greenpoint Stadium

Greenpoint Stadium

Greenpoint Stadium

Cape Town 2010 FIFA World Cup Stadium

Filed under: 2010 — Charl Norman @ 7:21 am

Cape Town 2010 FIFA World Cup Stadium facts and video

68 000 seats
258 m high (15 floors high)
Field dimensions – 290 x 265 x 48 m
250 VIP Suites
Basement parking for 1200 cars
16 x Lifts throughout stadium
4 x TV studios
Medical centre and police station
Will accommodate 120 wheelchairs

210onLONG – SUSTAINABLE SHOPPING SUSSED

Filed under: Shopping — Charl Norman @ 7:13 am

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Cape Town’s latest shopping experience, a synthesis of Long street style and sustainable shopping, opened with a phenominal celebration on Wednesday 4 Feb, with late night shopping hours.

As more people choose to turn their environmental ethics into action, 210onlong offers an innovative, vibrant experience for conscious retailers and consumers, in Cape Town’s creative heart, Long street.

The run down Baobab Mall has been lovingly recycled, using eco-friendly building techniques wherever possible, from the bricks (recycled) to the paint (organic, non-toxic), cement (lime rather than cement), timber (registered forests) and finishings (non-toxic varnish, indigenous tree etc.). The result is a bright, elegant shopping mall with more than 15 varied retailers all with a percentage of their products respecting the people and materials that create the things we like to buy.

Miki Clark, one of the owners, said: “We’ve used as many eco-friendly products while building as possible, and we’ve invited stores to open up in here that have the same sustainable ethics we do. A percentage of everything sold here is either eco-friendly, organic, recycled, subscribe to fair trade principals or are made locally. We are developing the mall in phases, and although it’s not entirely sustainable yet, we aim to eventually get it functioning completely off the grid.”
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