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Bordering on Cape Town central and the V & A Waterfront and incorporating a spacious common this district is being visibly upgraded on a weekly basis.

This large green and grassy bit of real estate has been a sort of mystery zone for the last decade or two. Prime land lying one road back from the Atlantic beach, adjacent to the Waterfront and north of the Green Point Main Road and the Western Boulevard.

The closest residential seaside strip to Cape Town, it has a small bay on each of its ends, and some curiosities: a lighthouse, the remains of a lighthouse, the 3rd largest maze in the world (in 18something) and a broad promenade rimmed by the chilly Atlantic.

The steep, narrow and occasionally cobbled streets lined with immaculate semi-detached cottages and fronted with close-up harbour views make up a tiny affluent village. Interspersed with eye-catching places of commerce and eating and fringed with nightlife establishments that a-happen, De Waterkant is a dandy of a place.

Bars, some clubs and restaurants, give way to pockets of retail stores as you travel west from the City and Somerset Road. This is where you’ll find the Pink Block, the morphing and meandering gay clubturf of Green Point.

South-ish from here and a block up the foot of Signal Hill is De Waterkant, Dutch for the Water’s Edge, which this area must once have been before the sea was pushed back beyond the harbour walls.