Dinner & Dance in Cape Town

Pigalle Cape Town

What do you get when you put together a group of old friends, an approaching birthday, delicious food and copious amounts of wine? The answer – a reunion and smashing birthday bash.

I have a group of very special friends who are spread far and wide across continents and sea and this week we were lucky enough to arrange for everyone to be in the same place at the same time for a celebration. We had friends travel from Eshowe in KwaZulu Natal, Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape as well as the birthday boy from Hamburg, Germany, his sister from the UK and a pair love birds from the shores of Spain. And of course -  all of the fabulous people who reside in Cape Town. This evening was an opportunity to get kitted out in our finest attire and head down to Somerset Road in Green Point for some fine dining and bit of dancing … Continued

Green Point Stadium by Greg Lumley

Photographs taken of the Green Point Stadium by Cape Town photographer, Greg Lumley. The Green Point Stadium is being transformed into a completely new 70 000 seater, all-weather, multi-purpose, environmentally sustainable, modern, technologically advanced, world class stadium in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup … and its almost done! Continued

Green Point Stadium Progress photographs

This evening we received a “tweet” via Twitter from @CapeTown_2010 that reads … “Installation of the translucent mesh facade membrane begins at Cape Town Stadium. Soon the stadium will glow at night”. Well I for one can’t wait and judging by the sheer number of photographs of the Stadium uploaded to Flickr.com by photographers from all over the world (but mostly Capetonians) chronicalling its progress, neither can the rest of Cape Town! So where are we now?  Continued

41 Weeks to Kick-Off! 2010 Spirit in Cape Town

While entertaining some friends visiting from London, it seemed appropriate to take them to the see the new Green Point Stadium, currently under construction and due for completion in December of this year. The old stadium (or what’s left of it) is home to the Green Point Stadium Visitors Centre, where the 2010 Soccer Magic Tour takes place. If you have not been yet, I can thoroughly recommend it. Not just for the views of the new stadium, or the views of Green Point, the ocean and Table Mountain, but for a theatre experience with a difference. Continued

Hip & Happening Green Point

Green Point

Like so many areas of Cape Town, Green Point is, of late, enjoying a second vogue. Nestled between Signal Hill and the touristy V&A Waterfront, the neighbourhood is shrugging off its reputation as the stalking ground of ladies of negotiable affection, and trading it in for a shiny new one - that of trendy trade and social hub. Businesses, boutiques, eateries and slick nightspots are springing up like daisies, as those in the know hurry to stake their claim in this rapidly changing neighbourhood.

Of course, locals have always known they had a good thing on their hands. The bustling Giovanni’s Deli has been in business for longer than most residents can remember, and every morning sees it packed with regulars enjoying one of Cape Town’s first decent cups of coffee and a pastry, or browsing the selection of imported deli goods … Continued