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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journey, Day 54 of Level 1, 23 November 2021

 

Tuesday 23 November 2021, Day 54 of Level 1. 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a day with a difference, with a 4h30 start, cramming in a day full of work until I left home at 10h00; for proudly wearing my Tourist Badge for the first time; for my first Tourist Guiding in 19 months, fetching German couple Cornelia and Wolfgang from the V&A Hotel and walking towards the city centre through a very quiet Silo District, they having a glass of bubbly at Utopia, showing them the wonderful 15th floor view and giving them an overview of ‘my Cape Town’ from the map of our city; for a walk through Bo Kaap, still very quiet, only seeing one tourist group at Atlas Continue reading →

Cape Town Community roleplayers recognised with 2021 Mayoral Civic Awards!

 

In a City of Cape Town Subcouncil 16 Awards Ceremony held on Monday three Camps Bay residents were awarded Mayor’s Civic Awards ‘in recognition of dedicated and generous service to the community in Good Hope Subcouncil (16). Your commitment to service delivery is hereby acknowledged with gratitude’.

In total 14 residents received Civic Awards. I am extremely grateful to be one of the Award recipients.

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German ZDF TV ‘Das Traumschiff’ episode ‘Kapstadt’ is good and bad PR for Cape Town!

 

I looooove ‘Das Traumschiff’, a German TV series that has been broadcast regularly in the past 20 years or so, so I was doubly excited when our city  ‘Kapstadt’ was the focus of the Boxing Day 2020 edition of  this series.

The edition could not have come at a better time, when our city’s Tourism industry is sorely missing its German tourists, and the Germans are missing not being able to travel to our city. But a subplot of the Cape Town edition has some political sensitivities, not good for our country’s image and tourism future. Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 10 of Level 3 Adjusted, 7 January 2021.

 

Thursday 7 January 2021, Day 10 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 288 of Lockdown 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a beautiful 27C day, with a breeze now; for a very organized working morning, breaking up what had to be done into time slots; for Imtiaz checking in for duty, removing weeds in the Stream at the Tidal Pool 🙏; for a good meeting with my client; for a late afternoon walk up to Maiden’s Cove and back, the breeze cooling things down and earning me 500 Miles today; for a phone chat to Stuart Bailey and Jenny Stephens; for making 1900 Discovery Miles in the first week of this year; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →