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Cape Town Digest - food, wine, and places to stay
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| Cape Town Digest is the official propaganda wing of Holiday Rentals Cape Town, www.rentalscapetown.com. We live in Cape Town and love it and want to tell you about what we get up to and what's good about our town so that you'll come and visit it.
Going out to good restaurants, discovering great fresh produce, bread, meat, cheeses and wine; visiting the areas around Cape Town that lovingly farm and produce this stuff are what we like doing a lot. |
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Get to know Cape Town: Camps Bay|Green Point|Waterfront
V&A Waterfront Area Cape Town: The V&A Waterfront No doubt you have been to many shopping centres and marveled at the fake Victorian, phoney Aztec or mock Martian themed corridors of stores, the roll-in roll-out parking ramps, fast-food arenas, entertainment wings and lifestyle piazzas. Undeniably, Cape Town’s Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (a.k.a V&A, The Waterfront, Cape Town Waterfront) is guilty of some of the above sins, being a collection of shops and restaurants stuck on the edge of a harbour, but it manages to do it with some grace. Built on and around the old Victorian harbour in the early 1990’s the combo of retail, restaurant, residential, hotel and office usage with a working harbour and old port buildings makes for a successful and harmonious blend rather than a contrived cacophony. Where any good harbour should be it is at the bottom end of town, looking nicely up at the winged sofa back of Table Mountain and at the end of two national roads, the N1 and N2 that both originate at the Waterfront main gates and travel roughly NE and E respectively through the whole of South Africa.
Rentals Cape Town Articles/V&A Waterfront Area
No doubt you have been to many shopping centres and marveled at the fake Victorian, phoney Aztec or mock Martian themed corridors of stores, the roll-in roll-out parking ramps, fast-food arenas, entertainment wings and lifestyle piazzas. Undeniably, Cape Town’s Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (a.k.a V&A, The Waterfront, Cape Town Waterfront) is guilty of some of the above sins, being a collection of shops and restaurants stuck on the edge of a harbour, but it manages to do it with some grace.
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Rentals Cape Town Articles/V&A Waterfront Area
Statistics, from whatever authority would have you believe them, say that the Cape Town Waterfront is the most visited site, natural or otherwise in Cape Town and the Western Cape. Most of these visitors will arrive by private car, taxi or bus. There is excellent pedestrian access from the bottom end of Cape Town, known as the Foreshore, as well as from the Green Point, Mouille Point/Granger Bay areas. Parking is well organized on the outer fringes of the development, mostly under-cover and mostly pay parking at premium rates. Once the car is parked or the cruise liner tied to its dock then pedestrians rule: follow the paved and demarcated walkways or deviate from these for more meandering routes around the piers and harbour edge. It’s hard to get lost and safety and security are well managed so there are no bad areas to be avoided: roam free.
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Rentals Cape Town Articles/V&A Waterfront Area
Where better to stay than right at the Waterfront? The Waterfront Marina started off as a couple of blocks of luxury apartments in the yacht basin just behind the Alfred Basin and has expanded yearly to occupy every last bit of available space in the area. The whole development is now nearing completion and this will result in 550 apartment units and 200 yacht moorings. This part of the Waterfront is also the location of the mega-lavish One and Only hotel that should be completed early in 2009.
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Paraglide Cape Town and SA
Ja. Meaning yes. Pilot courses and accommodation offered. Full details to be published soon but why wait? Contact Greg Wood for the next scheduled adventure. Max altitude, zero jet fuel.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27
A day at IKEA, story to follow # Its a general strike, or greve geral in Lisbon and Portugal today. No buses or Metro. Another reason to ride your bike. # Reason to visit Lisbon 2: great value rental accommodation. 1 bedroom, sleeps 4, 1 and a half bathrooms. Have a [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27
A day at IKEA, story to follow # Its a general strike, or greve geral in Lisbon and Portugal today. No buses or Metro. Another reason to ride your bike. # Reason to visit Lisbon 2: great value rental accommodation. 1 bedroom, sleeps 4, 1 and a half bathrooms. Have a [...]
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