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Tuesday, 16 March 2010

The Chavonnes Cannon Battery Museum celebrates its 295th Birthday

Cannon Firing

Cannon Firing

At 3pm on Saturday 20th March 2010, the Chavonnes Cannon Battery Museum on the Waterfront’s Clock Tower Square will give Capetonians a loud, smoky and noisy taste of 18th-Century war­fare by fir­ing a two-gun salute from our muzzle-loading can­nons as a slightly belated Birthday cel­eb­ra­tion. "Captain Jack Sparrow would have loved it!"

On 20 February 1715 Cape Governor Maurice Pasque de Chavonnes laid the foundation-stone of the bat­tery which would later bear his name — the first true coastal gun bat­tery at the Cape, and the first of a chain of bat­ter­ies which would make the Cape Peninsula one of the most heav­ily for­ti­fied places in Africa. Continued

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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

V&A Waterfront Photos

One of Cape Town's biggest tour­ist attrac­tions, the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront evokes images of the early activ­it­ies of the har­bour. Much of its charm lies in the fact that this busy com­mer­cial har­bour is set in the midst of a huge enter­tain­ment venue with pubs, res­taur­ants, spe­cialty shops, craft mar­kets, theatres and movies ... Continued

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Saturday, 5 September 2009

High Tea at the One&Only

Vista Lounge

Vista Lounge

In search of an early start to the week­end, I took off to the One&Only Hotel at the V&A Waterfront. Having been lucky enough to enjoy High Tea at The Palace in Sun City, I wondered if Sol Kerzner’s new offer­ing at the Waterfront could match up.

Afternoon Tea is served from 14h30 to 18h00 every day in the Vista Lounge. The double volume lounge is cer­tainly quite opu­lent with a mag­ni­fi­cent view of Table Mountain (when not obstruc­ted by clouds) and the water­ways which sur­round the two man-made islands that house 40 of the 131 rooms avail­able at the hotel. Continued

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