tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16590146160306256292012-02-17T00:07:53.602+02:00Cape Town Digest is the official propaganda wing of Holiday Rentals Cape Town, www.rentalscapetown.com. We live in Cape Town and love it and want to tell you about what we get up to and what's good about our town so that you'll come and visit it. Going out to good restaurants, discovering great fresh produce, bread, meat, cheeses and wine; visiting the areas around Cape Town that lovingly farm and produce this stuff are what we like doing a lot.Greg Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05736253704407844871noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1659014616030625629.post-42286693881352199812010-12-01T13:16:00.001+02:002010-12-01T13:16:57.584+02:00

There's a lot of stuff in the city that just doesn't get noticed. Its the place in which you live, work and shop. Where you get stuck in traffic or manoeuvre in intricate geometries to avoid it. Don't look around, dawdle or hesitate: a turn might get missed or some piece of flesh dressed in a vehicle will get stressed out and edgy. Not the sort of actions or attitude that will bring the lesser

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Spiders weighing as much as half a hamburger and hairy like a Persian kitten after an altercation with some Wahl hair clippers. Go to the Cape Union Mart "pod" store located in a large building outside the main Canal Walk shopping centre, Century City along the N1 just outside Cape Town. Upstairs next to the sleeping bags are the spider display cases- each one housing a large and relaxed arachnid

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-- Greg Wood Holiday Rentals Cape Town Luxurious Apartments, Villas and Beach Houses +27834570487 skype: g.b.wood http://rentalscapetown.com

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Accommodation still available at the Icon- Jazz & Blues. No queues @ www.rentalscapetown.com.

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-- Greg WoodHoliday Rentals Cape TownFlats, Houses and Beach Villas of Quality and Distinction+27834570487www.rentalscapetown.comskype g.b.wood

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A pork pie that would launch 1000 ships. The burnished pastry all crimped, crusty, chewy and rich filled with delicate and crumbly ground pork spiked with cider vinegar and garlic. Sixteen Rand is the price for this encounter. Add a take away coffee to the bill and take them outside to sit on the grass under a eucalyptus or shady shrub. There's Ludwigs Roses across from here- blooms bearing the

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Last week, shocking revelations concerning the activities of the ANC Youth League spokesperson Nyiko Floyd Shivambu came to the fore. According to a letter published in various news outlets, a complaint was laid by 19 political journalists with the Secretary General of the ANC, against Shivambu. This complaint letter detailed attempts by Shivambu to leak a dossier to certain journalists,

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The Village of Philadelphia- quiet, safe and tastefully rustic. With only about 30 properties in the oudorp, your chances of getting a house here are slim and the prices can be steep. If you are after real country life but need to be within close proximity to Cape Town (40km), Durbanville (22km), Melkbos (22km) and Table View (30km) then Philadelphia is the perfect mix of unspoilt farm hamlet and

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The courtyard gently reverberates with the metallic wheeze and drone of the accordian - the player looks like he is gently wrestling with an old fashioned cash register thats trying to eat his hands. The restaurant owner does the vocals to this languid battle at a hen party table: all amor from here to eternity.Where else, I ask you, as I pour half a cup of grassy fresh olive oil over the

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From the window of a moving car the scene looked like a street sale: furniture, appliances, clothing, bric-a-brac. Then the details of the image solidified- the clothing on display was laundry drying on the fence, the browsers were passers by on the pavement moved along by its anti-merchandise. The vendors inert on the chairs and boxes or asleep in their beds could have been another second-hand

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She comes towards the table, smiling, just-brushed hair and party frock, a wicker basket of red red roses clutched closely.By the Saints, its the roving restaurant Flower Girl and she is about to dampen the next few moments of your evening. You might be in the middle of declaring undying love or a bitter argument, a punchline of the worlds best joke, the crucial stage of an invention. But that

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The sandwich board outside the shop that sells furniture and light fittings says "Snack, Eats, drinks etc." Is it too much to hope that they are all for free? For me to enjoy whilst looking at a piece of prettily arranged gnarled root.It was too much to expect but the place was away from the restaurant and coffee shop killing zone and felt a lot more relaxing.Here I am then, on a Nap sort of

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Why is it called Big Bay? Where do you go for pizza if you live in a small village 40km from Cape Town? How do two of you have wine and then drive home without getting apprehended and incarcerated for the rest of the weekend? (And can you keep your cell phone on you whilst in jail?)Most of of these riddles will remain unsolved for some time. But the meaning of "Col' Cacchio" in English ? That's

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The hibiscus bush waves and makes leafy sounds in the odd energetic gust outside on the verandah of our Ground Floor Superior garden unit. I'm glad it is a hibiscus bush, if it was a bush of indeterminate type I would not have been able to use it as a scenic mood-setter for this Camps Bay chapter. I'm looking at the bush again wondering how to brew it into a healthful cup of hibiscus tea.These

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Sitting on the stoep of Rose Cottage at Glenconner in the Jonkershoek Valley of Stellenbosch. All is very, very pretty. The vines are all a-trellised. The properties are grand and the Eerste River looks just swell. The horses have done their contractually specified 1/4 mile gallop, spring and back roll in the paddock before going back to just looking like pretty, underemployed and inedible

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After 2 single tracks: the Lower Patula and the Medulla Oblongata we pause to do some press ups and star jumps. Now the stop for sandwiches and lemonade. Home brew would be more suited to the strong and burly attitude that about 3km of hard-core, awesome, gnarly, pant-shattering, hymn singing and utterly subversive dirt riding has cultivated in our normally prim selves. Bring out the navigation

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The little valley hideaway of oranges is now about 15km behind us now. After the arduous packing and loading of baggage, bikes and freshly picked oranges and newly acquired bags of braai wood we needed breakfast. Here we are at Die Tol Plaasstal. Just finished a plate of pepper steak pie, toasted ham and cheese sandwich and chips dusted with Aromat. It was delicious. Big food eaten to the roar

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...for our survival. My apricot had lots of what look like insect eggs in it. I hope my digestive juices can dissolve them.

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We make it up the Ceres Pass to critical turning point at Gonnafontein. We are gaunt and in need of some beer. I think it is mostly rough but downhill from here.

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After the first downhill out of Boschkloof we take water and solace at the foot of the Berg St fluorescent cross.

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This is an example of mobile blog posting from my Nokia E71. Rosemary relaxes before heading off with me on the gruelling 26km Le Tour de Citrusdal. We have both trained for it over the last 72 hours and have just had pasta salad, tea and shorbread to ensure constant and top grade nutrients are available to our high-performance systems.

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Yay, we're on holiday. The Rentals Cape Town personnel (all two of them) are renting a house on a citrus farm just outside Citrusdal.No appointments, no violin practice, no Pick 'n Pay. Rosemary spent her whole first day under a fig tree reading a book about good places to stay in the country in South Africa and drinking her home made lemonade.Me and my two new friends, Tessa and Alfonso, dogs

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