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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 124 of Level 1, 1 February 2022.

 

Tuesday 1 February 2022, Day 124 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a hot day, becoming misty; for a day of minimal writing; for Gary Peterson coming to fetch me to take me to the MediCross Day Hospital next to the Netcare Hospital on the Foreshore, for the first of two eye ops, having cataracts removed from my right eye today, all done by lunchtime, Gary fetching me and taking me home again; for a one hour sleep, having to lie on my left side, wearing a perspex eye patch, tonight and every night for a week; for managing a walk to Camps Bay Continue reading →

City of Cape Town hands over City Hall to Parliament for its State of the Nation Address!

 

Following a fire over two days early this month, the Parliament Buildings have become unusable for the presentation of the President’s State of the Nation Address on 10 February, and the debate which follows.

The ceremonial gilted key which was used for the inauguration of the City Hall 117 years ago was handed to the representative of Parliament,  its Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula today.

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 20 February

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*   Bad news for tourists is that SA National Parks is closing Chapman’s Peak every Wednesday, from 25 February from 9h00 – 16h00, for a month, to clear alien vegetation! (received via Twitter from the Western Cape Government).

*   The Noordhoek Crush is a child-friendly wine event taking place at Noordhoek Farm Village on 28 March. Entrance is free and a ‘tasting passport’ costs R75. Eighty wines from 18 wine estates will be available to taste. The Noordhoek Farm Village restaurants will be open, with pop-up stalls added too. Live music. (received via e-mail from Siris Vintners)

*   Durban is increasingly becoming a tourism threat to Cape Town, having seen particular growth from the USA, representing 15% of its tourists, its largest source market.  This results from a workshop road show held in Continue reading →