Cape Town March 07 - January 08

3800 Photographs
14 Flights
10 Months
6 Cars
4 Offices
2 Houses
2 Surf Boards
2 Oceans
1 Road Trip
1 BMX

And God knows how much wine..

Over and Out

Harbour House

We went for a lunch at Harbour House before out flight as a last supper or sorts. As always the food was excellent.


The sea was pretty wild too.

Shut Down

Saatchi & Saatchi


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Church Square

Back in London

Well we're back in London and back at work.

More views to come shortly..

Packing is going surprisingly well

Yes, you're not going blind that is me throwing away shoes.


We booked some extra bags on the flight - this has turned out to be a very good move.

Britain is too expensive

So here's a quick survey, completely devoid of scientific methods and economic knowledge.

Exhibit a: One Element Skateboard Deck - 7 Maple Plys, 4 Colour silk screen print.
Exhibit b: Worldwide Prices:

UK: £60
SA: R599 (About £44)
US: $70 (About £36)

Packing is rubbish but shopping isn't

Yes that's right packing is rubbish. We've got too much stuff, so much so that we've actually had to buy another bag for the flight. Luckily though it's rubbish excuse to buy a very cool bag in the for of another The North Face base camp duffel this time slightly smaller than the 140 litre monster it now accompanies. The last time this happened I'd spent 4 months in Canada and i accumulated so much snowboarding gear i could hardly carry it. At least now I've got matching luggage - isn't that something everyone aspires to have?

So booked on this flight:
2x23 kilo free allowance bags
2x32 kilo extra bags
1xBMX in box

BA's being nice to it's baggage handers at the moment isnt it?

Noordhoek

We took Paul, Vicky and Aiden to Noordhook to sample the wind.

More weekend wonders

Beach got voted 2 to nil again, but this time we decided to head to the atlantic side after another trip to Muizenberg reveled a very very windy sea which was absolutly useless for surfing.

We took the reverse angle on Chapmans Peak which gave a few places to stop along the way.








Getting eventually to Udekraal for some more snorkeling.

And then on to Table view for ice cream, and some kite flying.

Weekend Wonders

It being out last full weekend we decided that we'd better make the most of it. Taking a diplomatic approach 'Beach' wont 2 votes to nil, so we went to the beach, namely Boulders. I did try and go for a surf but Muizenberg didn't look too appealing.

But snorkeling with penguins seemed to be a pretty good compromise.


Also took a visit to Kirstenbosch where we saw probably the most bizarre and quite scary spider ever. Just walking down the path this thing appeared out of the grass, probably about 5cm across and pretty hairy. One onlooker tried to prod it with her flip flop (clearly been watching to much of the Really wild Show) and it suddenly reared up into some sort of defensive pose. Poisonous? No. Did we known that then? No. Did we hang around? No. Did i get a picture? No. Did I move ata pace which could be considered a jog? Yes.

Some other things I didn manage to photograph.






We also took a pilgrimage to Century City just to make sure the shops hadn't all changed since last week. They hadn't.