{"id":52770,"date":"2014-01-03T07:17:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=52770"},"modified":"2014-01-03T07:17:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:17:55","slug":"cape-town-weather-sweet-service-and-city-of-cape-town-traffic-services-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-weather-sweet-service-and-city-of-cape-town-traffic-services-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town weather Sweet Service and City of Cape Town Traffic Services Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Whale<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to the weather in Cape Town in the past ten days, which has been picture perfect, putting on its best face to give the thousands of holidaymakers a fantastic time in our beautiful city. \u00a0As a guest house owner in Camps Bay, which gets badly hit by south-easters which can exceed 120 km\/hour and can intimidate visitors not familiar with such strong wind speeds, we have been delighted, as our guests have been able to enjoy the beautiful view by sitting on our terrace for breakfast, and we have easily been able to get our laundry dry without fear that it blows away! \u00a0 The forecast rain is to return just as the bulk of Festive Season holiday-makers leave Cape Town on Sunday!<\/p>\n

\"Traffic<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to the City of Cape Town’s Traffic Services, which has failed in having control over the chaos on the roads between Camps Bay and the city centre. \u00a0At the traffic circle linking Signal Hill and the Table Mountain Cableway the most junior and incompetent staff are deployed to direct the traffic, the one allowing traffic from Tafelberg Road, while the other colleague blocks them from crossing Camps Bay Drive on the Signal Hill side of the traffic circle, causing a crazy traffic build-up on Kloofnek Road as well as on Camps Bay Drive yesterday! \u00a0In Camps Bay there were more City of Cape Town traffic officers writing out tickets and helping pedestrians cross the road than controlling the terrible traffic build-up or dealing with the rogue sedan and minibus taxis, whose drivers make U-turns where they want to!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at\u00a0\u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the\u00a0WhaleTales\u00a0<\/strong>newsletters on the\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to the weather in Cape Town in the past ten days, which has been picture perfect, putting on its best face to give the thousands of holidaymakers a fantastic time in our beautiful city. \u00a0As a guest house owner in Camps Bay, which gets badly hit by south-easters which can […]<\/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":[3,124,1918,248,22,21],"tags":[32370,32366,32378,23162,3222,411,23161,1678,17936,23133,430,32373,1771],"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