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A new career as Hospitality Communications Consultant takes off, reaching new heights!

 

While I had tried to separate my Blog writing from my new work as a Communications Consultant, my cover was blown (so to speak) when a fantastic 10/10 review for my client was posted yesterday, including me in the praise.

It is the first time that I am offering Communications services for clients, since having owned PR Consultancy Relationship Marketing 25 years ago, focusing mainly on Social Media Communication, but also on client liaison, writing posts and content, organising promotions, proactively identifying all possible Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 61 of Level 3, 31 July 2020.

 

Friday 31 July 2020, Day 61 of Level 3, after 66 days of Levels 5 and 4 đŸ˜·

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a beautiful 19C day, nice and sunny and warm; for a slow lazy morning but then I had to catch up over the rest of the dayđŸ˜±; for my mother drilling me in German, now having an opportunity to apply for two German-speaking jobs; for finding my Discovery DisChem voucher with the help of a Discovery assistant telephonically; for an energetic walk to 4th Beach in Clifton, seeing my friend Howard on the way; for Camps Bay looking busier today, with Tiger’s Milk and Caprice looking nice and busy, and the road outside my home being fully parked; for a nice weekend feel with a good weather forecast, before we dip back into winter next week; for dancing to Kfm as I write 💃; for the offer of financial assistance for my Camps Bay Clean litter work, awaiting confirmation 💙; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

‘My Cape Town Guide/Mein Kapstadt Guide’ launched, after qualifying as a Tourist Guide during Lockdown!

 

In January I attended a Tourist Guiding course run by the Tourist Guiding Institute, with a theoretical as well as a practical content, and received my Certificate last week, the issuing thereof much delayed due to the Covid-19 Lockdown. I am qualified as a Cultural Tourist Guide, as well as a Wine Tourist Guide, for the Western Cape as well as Port Elizabeth and the Garden Route, and guide in English and in German. I have created a Facebook page, calling my Guiding Service ‘My Cape Town Guide/Mein Kapstadt Guide’. Continue reading →

Haus & Laib Deli, Speciality Butchery, and Bistro opens on Loop Street, sells Raith cold meats and other German Treats!

Yesterday I went to pop in at the new Haus & Laib Deli, on Loop Street opposite the back entrance to the St Martini Lutheran Church. I received a warm welcome from co-owner Cheryl Hauslaib, whom I had got to know from my shopping at Raith, now renamed Hartlief, over the years, before she and her husband Hans left to start their new venture. Continue reading →