{"id":52674,"date":"2013-12-31T07:19:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=52674"},"modified":"2013-12-31T07:29:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:29:27","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-3031-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-3031-december\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 30\/31 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhaleTales\"<\/a>Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 For the first time ever Long Street (between Wale and Buitensingel Streets) will be closed to traffic from 20h00 on 31 December until 4h00 on 1 January, creating one of the biggest street parties Cape Town will have ever seen!<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Four low cost domestic airlines may take off in 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, in competition to Mango and kulula, reducing the cost of domestic air tickets, it is speculated. \u00a0Skywise, 1Time, FlySafair, and Fastjet are likely to begin operating next year.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0Tonight the City of Cape Town is hosting what has been billed as ‘Africa’s largest free’<\/em> New Years Eve party on the Grand Parade, not only to celebrate the start of 2014, but also to inaugurate Cape Town’s status as World Design Capital 2014.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The Cape minstrel marches should be given ‘national heritage status’,<\/em>\u00a0reports the Cape Argus<\/strong>, to prevent the annual wrangle between the minstrel associations and the City of Cape Town, which has to offer permits, financial, \u00a0and traffic service support. \u00a0Tonight the Malay Choir Nagtroupe will march at midnight, while the daytime march in the streets of Cape Town will take place on Friday 4 January, two days later than the usual date.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a> \u00a0Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 For the first time ever Long Street (between Wale and Buitensingel Streets) will be closed to traffic from 20h00 on 31 December until 4h00 on 1 January, creating one of the biggest street parties Cape Town will have ever seen! * \u00a0 Four low cost domestic airlines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,6924,1918,22,16166],"tags":[17269,2158,10531,693,32366,32378,257,23140,20609,30,4242,6912,23139,23142,14694,23141,8926,21310,5,5692,32373,10,365,7120],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t