The Sweet Service Award goes to the City of Cape Town , for the collection of refuse on Christmas and New Year’s Day, despite these being very special public holidays.
Category Archives: World Design Capital
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 28 November
Tourism, Food, and Wine new headlines
* The drop in the price of petrol from 3 December has been confirmed as 69 cents per liter, and 54 cents per liter for diesel. Crude oil price decreases to about $80 per barrel can be thanked, and are seen to be good for stimulating the economy.
* Tim James of Grape blog has won the 2014 Du Toitskloof Wines Wine Writer of the Year competition.
* Chef Duncan Doherty will step into the big shoes of the late Chef Bruce Robertson, Continue reading →
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 20 October
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* World Design Capital 2016 will be hosted by Taipei, and the city received the baton for the bi-annual event from incumbent Cape Town last weekend from the President of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, with Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille present. Taipei’s theme will be ‘Adaptive City: Design in Motion’.
* Crown Princess Mary of Denmark will open the ‘Danish Showroom for Design, Architecture and Consumer Goods‘ at Youngblood in Cape Town on 3 November. Danish design products of ten companies will be on display, and the exhibition aims to improve collaboration between our country and Denmark. Entrance is free, from 4 – 6 November.
* A Ghandi tourism route has been developed, and was launched in Johannesburg by SA Tourism, with thirteen places on Continue reading →
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 23 September
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Chef Roger Jones of Michelin star restaurant The Harrow in Little Bedwyn in the UK, is set to pop-in and pop-up at a number of dining events in the Cape in January next year. He will be seen in action at the Vineyard Hotel on 9 January, offering a 6-course dinner with a South African and Australian premium wine pairing. He will also be at 96 Winery Road with Ken Forrester and other top local winemakers, and is doing a ‘foraging dinner’ with Adi Badenhorst. The chef is known for his wine knowledge as well as cooking skills.
* Low-cost Condor airline will increase it direct flights between Cape Town and Frankfurt from two to three a week from 6 November.
* Wesgro and Cape Town NPC, the company organising World Design Capital 2014 for Cape Town, will present Cape Town’s design industry at 2014 Vienna Design Week from 26 September – 5 October. Local designer Heath Nash will represent Cape Continue reading →