The Western Cape
In order to escape Christmas and its shopping and jingling terrors, we got up at 6h30 in the morning an headed East, out of Cape Town, and towards Mossel Bay. We drove all morning, some 400 kilometers East, through the Western Cape’s mountain ranges, its farmlands and forests, bush land and hills. The country […] Read More
The Art of Asking
I first saw Amanda Palmer in 2007 at a concert in Berkeley, playing a couple of songs with her band, the Dresden Dolls, at Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Tour. I was intrigued by this weird, punk-rock-meets-cabaret singer and her songs, and went right into Amoeba Records the next days to find their records. I kept following […] Read More
MCQP
MCQP is the biggest party in Cape Town. It stands for Mother City Queer Project, and is THE event of the LGBT community. We had no idea what to expect and just bought tickets some weeks ago. In the last moment we learned that it’s actually a costume party. This year’s motto: Royal Navy. Come […] Read More
(My) Rebel Heart
When I was young and Madonna was super popular in the mid-80s, I actually didn’t like her! I might have listened to some of the songs on radio, but I didn’t like the personae, and the hype around her. That changed in 1989 with the Like A Prayer song, album, and video clip. Suddenly she […] Read More
Cape Animals
On our trip through the peninsula and to the Cape of Good Hope, we also encountered a number of animals. From the baboons that live around the Cape – and that tourists are constantly warned off not to feed them or approach them as they might become pretty unfriendly when after your food – to […] Read More
Cape of Good Hope
How could we not make a day trip to the Cape? After all this town is named for it. The Cape of good hope is basically just a rock formation along the long peninsula to the South of Cape Town. While many, including me, think that it is the Southern tip of Africa, it is […] Read More
Shopping less
After a quick stroll through the beautiful Company Gardens, a park in the heart of Cape town, we went to the V&A Waterfront. It’s a newly re-developed area around the two basis of Cape Town’s harbor, named after Queen Victoria and her second son, Alfred. Today it houses a number of restaurant, bars, markets and, […] Read More
Holiday, celebration
Everyone who is working might slap me for that comment: but I’m in need of a holiday. Traveling for nearly 15 months now has taken its toll. Sven’s arrival is really perfectly timed. He’s been working like mad in the past months in a new job, had been sick in the past weeks, and is […] Read More
Cape Town Boys vs. West End Girls
Aaaaand…. here we go, Sven has arrived and I have moved into total luxury. A nice 2 bedroom apartment in Tamboerskloof, a fancy Cape Town neighborhood at the foot of the Lion’s Head, including a balcony with a view over town. It’s something I could NEVER afford on my by now dwindling budget. We first went […] Read More
(Nearly) robbed
Everybody warned me, but I had to defy it and walk home at night…. Most nights when I went out I left my phone at home, had no valuables than the Rand I wanted to spend, and my ID card… So in case that someone would rob me I would give them the cash, and […] Read More