Back at Mzoli’s today. I went out early and ordered a bucket load of meat (literally). There were 20 or 30 of us in total. We did order more meat later though. This was just the first round!
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My 2nd attempted mugging
I was on my way home last night. I stopped my motorbike to read a text message. It was just next to the central train / taxi station. Out of the corner of my eye, I spot a guy crossing the road towards me. Not in front or behind me, right towards me. I stuffed [...]
Back to Mzoli’s
I’m going to Mzoli’s again today. Last time my trip to Mzoli’s prompted me to give up alcohol. The following morning I started counting my drinks from the night before. I drank somewhere between 15 and 18 beeers. I felt fine in the morning. Well, perhaps not fine, but normal.
This prompted me to question my [...]
Cape Town Facebook Developers Garage
I was at the Cape Town Facebook Developers Garage last night. I have the badge to prove it!
It was an interesting evening. Pizza was generously provided by Butler’s Pizza. If I’m not mistaken their delivery staff arrive wearing a tuxedo shirt (whatever it’s called) and a bow tie! Fantastic. Drinks were supplied by Joyent (I [...]
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Chilling by my pool
The first little snapshot of where I live here in Cape Town. Here’s my current CouchSurfer chilling by the pool in the garden.
Ismael Lo at Kirstenbosch
Last Sunday I was at Kirstenbosch gardens for their weekly sunset concert. Last week McCully Workshop were playing. They’re a popular South African ’70s band and the concert was excellent.
Yesterday, Ismael Lo was playing. The concert set a new Kirstenbosch record selling out all 6′000 tickets in 6 hours. Ismael Lo is a Senegalese singer, [...]
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My first attempted mugging
Long Street is the main backpacker hang out in Cape Town. It’s very much down town, a street lined with bars, restaurants and hostels.
I was walking along Long Street on Friday night. It was just before 6pm, so still daylight. A guy approached me asking for change. I responded with my usual “not on yer [...]
A trip to Guguletu
Guguletu is a township outside Cape Town. Answers.com defines a township as “A racially segregated area in South Africa established by the government as a residence for people of color.” Another word might be a ghetto.
I was told there’s always a good feast on a Sunday in the townships and some friends invited me to [...]
South African Internet
I hadn’t fully appreciated just how undeveloped the internet would be in South Africa. All internet connections down here are all bandwidth capped. Bandwidth costs about 70 rand per Gb. That’s about $10 USD per Gb.
Let me put that in perspective. A movie is around 700Mb (at the quality I download them), so that movie [...]
First impressions of Cape Town
I began my journey from New York to Cape Town on Tuesday night, around 3am (technically Wednesday morning!) and I finally arrived in Cape Town on Friday morning around 11am. It was quite a journey!
Naturally, a little celebration was in order on Friday night, after a little sleeping. It turned out to be rather a [...]
