Tag Archives: Kloofnek Road

City of Cape Town setting quota for number of Atlantic Seaboard beachgoers on busy beach days!

Camps Bay beachThe heavily crowded beach days of 26 December and 1 January are to be controlled by the City of Cape Town, to make the traffic flow more bearable.  Not all Capetonians are in favour of this proposed quota system.

The City media statement announced:   The ‘City’s Traffic Service will actively manage the influx of vehicles along the Atlantic Seaboard in an effort to prevent a repetition of the gridlock conditions that have become a regular occurrence in Sea Point, Bantry Bay, Clifton and Camps Bay on 26 December and 1 January in previous years‘.  Anyone living on that side of Cape Town will agree that the traffic mayhem is unbearable, it taking one hour from Bakoven to the Camps Bay beachfront on 26 December last year, for example.

Unsurprisingly the City is promoting its MyCiTi Bus service, recommending that beachgoers, those heading for Camps Bay in Continue reading →

City of Cape Town Sweet Service and Hylton Ross Sour Service Awards!

City of Cape Town logoThe Sweet Service Award goes to the City of Cape Town for its speedy repair of a traffic light at the corner of Kloofnek Road going downhill, and its extension towards Kloof Street, which stayed on red, whilst all the other traffic lights turned green too, which meant that one could not move, and had to eventually cross the intersection on a red light!   When I reported this on Twitter a few weeks ago, the City of Cape Town Tweeter asked me to log a complaint, which I had already done via Twitter!  They did take note of the complaint in the Continue reading →

WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 14 – 16 June

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*  Despite an international ban on whaling, Japan has announced that it has killed 30 Minke whales in its ‘research‘ program.  The Japanese government is planning to apply to the International Whaling Commission for permission to hunt whales from next year again.

*   Babylonstoren has received a fantastic write-up on the online Forbes site, entitled ‘Harvest the Colourful Bounty at Babylonstoren, South Africa, and praised it as follows: ‘Easily the most  vibrant and distinct of all converted farms in the valley‘.

*   Grazia magazine calls Hallelujah on Kloofnek Road ‘The Hottest restaurant in Cape Town‘ and describes it as the ‘2014 It restaurant’, for its interior decor and its lobster rolls and slow-roasted pulled pork buns.

*   Airlines servicing South Africa are unprepared for the new controversial Department of Home Continue reading →

City of Cape Town Sweet & Sour Service Awards!

City Hall Sweet ServiceThe Sweet Service Award goes to the City of Cape Town, for its announcement that it is to spend R 25 million to upgrade the City Hall, in its attempt to position Cape Town as the Events Capital of Africa, according to Mayoral Committee member for Tourism, Events, and Marketing Grant Pascoe.  In 2013 the venue hosted 143 events attended by more than 150000 persons.  The City Hall is a beautiful building with character and history, and the renovations will include roof repairs and the protection of the ‘architecture and design of the ceiling‘, reports the Cape Times.  The City Hall’s toilet facilities are shocking, despite an upgrade last year, and one hopes that a few pennies will be made available for the modernisation of these.

Street lights Kloofnek Road 6 March Whale Cottage PortfolioThe Sour Service Award goes to the City of Cape Town, for its wastage of electricity on Thursday 6 March, the day of the country-wide electricity load-shedding, in that all the street lights on Camps Bay Drive, Kloofnek Road, and on the highways were switched on during the daytime, despite various parts of the city experiencing electricity cuts, causing havoc for businesses as well as residents!

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.  Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at  whalecot@iafrica.com.   Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales newsletters on the www.whalecottage.com website.

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:  www.whalecottage.com  Twitter: @WhaleCottage