For some reason I also loved the view of the Harbour, with the Rudolph Street Mosque in the foreground, as you come down Heugh Road. I always wanted to take a picture of the view and this morning I set up my camera on the dash and snapped that picture. So the picture doesn't have the same impact as seeing it first hand but don't you just love the view of the sea and harbour as you come down the…
The Baakens Valley truly is Port Elizabeth's green lung stretching all the way from the west of the city through to the harbour. The valley really has so much potential to be one of the city's playgrounds, but the stigma of crime is sticking to it like velcro. Mountain bikers, trail runners and hikers use parts of the Baakens Valley on a regular basis but the valley has so much more to give. I am a true believer in the…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxuqZOgdFEE&w=500&h=400]It is Easter Weekend and time for the annual Splash Festival. After a few lean years, the municipality allocated a proper budget for this year's event again and hopefully it would mean that quality artists and activities would attract more people back to one of the city's flagship event. The last few years the event has really been reduced in size and quality but from the look of it this year may just be the turning point again. That is…
When we were small we often went to swim at the pools (both the pool by the Smartie Train and the kiddie slide pool) at Kings Beach. I remember the day so well when I decided that I was big enough to go and try out the "big" slide at McArthur's Pool. The kiddies slide (and Smartie Train pool) closed down before I had kids so they never got to experience that part of my childhood memories. After the slide…
“Would you please tell me, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the cat.“I don’t much care where … ” said Alice.“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat.”— Lewis Carroll
One of the things I like most about the school holidays is the fact that there is so much less traffic on the way to work in the mornings. This morning I stopped at the Walmer Library to replace a Geocache that needed some maintenance and snapped a picture of a road with absolutely no traffic. Well, not a real road though but the one where the kiddies go and ride their bicycles.
Drama Princess went to sleep over at a friend's house in Seaview a few nights ago. We dropped her off a little late and it was dark by the time we got there. I just love the view from Seaview over the ocean. The bright lights are chokka boats fishing off the coast. In the background are white and red lights. The white lights is Jeffrey's Bay while the red lights are from the JBay Wind Farm turbines.
I joined a couple of my fellow Geocachers for a lunch time coffee "event" at the new Urban Express Coffee Shop at the Donkin Village development. I can see this spot becoming very popular, specially for meetings over coffee, seeing its location and how central it is. And yes, that's our bunch on the right.
I met up with a few friends for coffee over lunch time at the new coffee shop at the Donkin Village. I've seen the work being done on the Donkin Street Houses but this was the first time I got to see the development from the back. I really think once the work is done the whole Donkin Village precinct is going to look very nice. Already it has drawn in a whole host of tenants making it quite a…