Last week I was spoilt with a two day stay at 185 on Beach, a four star guest house as well as self-catering accommodation establishment located on Beach Road in Gordon’s Bay, a few steps from the town’s famous Bikini Beach.
What was intended as an Instagram training trade exchange became two days of spoiling by owners Richard and Jeanette Loring, and added to my portfolio of sunset photographs, given the fantastic location of 185 on Beach. Continue reading →
Wednesday 4 August 2021, Day 9 of Level 3 😷
Corona Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a night’s sleep, with a far longer deep sleep than normal, waking up to the lovely sound of the waves; for an amazing breakfast brought up to my room, enjoying it on my terrace, with granola and fruit salad, and scrambled egg and breakfast, with tea; for finishing my writing work this morning; for a fun long walk with Jeanette Loring along the beach to the other end of Gordon’s Bay, seeing quaint shops and the other restaurants in Gordon’s Bay; for being able to pick up litter on the way, I having brought my cleaning gloves with me; for catching up on work this afternoon; for a Continue reading →
On Monday restaurants were allowed to reopen for Sit-Down Service, after having only been allowed to offer a Food Delivery service from May, and a Food and Alcohol Delivery and Collection Service from June onwards.
I have been requested to prepare a list of Restaurants offering a Sit-Down Service, in addition to the Facebook Group which I created of Restaurants offering Food and Alcohol Delivery and Collection. The majority of restaurants offering a Sit-Down service will continue offering a Food and Alcohol Delivery and/or Collection Service. Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* The Mutual & Federal Agri Wellington Wine Route’s ‘Quest for the Best’ is coming to Cape Town tomorrow at the Southern Sun Waterfront Hotel, at the cost of R60. Wellington wines will be offered for tasting, with the recently selected ‘Quest for the Best’ Top Ten Wines and Top Spirits. (received via Wellington Wine Route newsletter)
* There are more than 40000 hotel rooms being built in Africa in the next four years, 10% of these in Lagos in Nigeria alone. No South African city appears on the top hotel room construction list.
* Retail sales only grew by 1,5% in the past year, and it is the low income shoppers who are shopping less and closer to home. This has affected retailers at the bottom end Continue reading →