C’est La Vie bakery, Rosmead Road, Kalk Bay. They have wonderful French baguettes and other interesting breads. I read about them in the BA airline magazine on Sunday, and today I went to find them. They are a little out of the way but quite easy to fine. They also have a few tables outside where you can order sit-down meals, but we brought the baguettes home for lunch, and they are wonderfully fresh and chewy, just like a real baguette should be.
Stonehenge; one from the archives, found on a backup CD from years ago. Minor photoshop tweaking required :-)
I probably took the picture around 2000, on a trip to Salisbury, taken on my father’s 35mm Pentax SLR camera :-) While this shot is tone-mapped, it is not a true HDR in that only one exposure was used.
If you have not been to Stonehenge you should visit it, it is a magical place.
(Cape Town away)
Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting! -White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland)
Our guest house is not called the Rabbit Hole for nothing, here is one of the Rabbits that kept appearing on the lawn at unexpected moments.
Doesn’t he look like a little stuffed toy rabbit?
My regular blogs are going to take a small detour to Klerksdorp, just outside of Johannesburg, since I spent a few days at a Toastmasters conference in the area. We stayed at a wonderful (and eclectic) guest house called the Rabbit Hole, and I got some interesting shots there.
Today’s pic is of a wooden crocodile with a frog in its mouth, found outside one of the rooms.
We cooked these the other evening; black mushrooms with fresh garlic, crushed chilli and grated parmesan cheese.
Very yummy!
…in an octopus’ garden in the shade
Shouldn’t it be in an octopi’s garden?
Anyway, this octopus does not live in the shade. He lives in the sun, specifically on the ledge above somebody’s front door. It looks like he is made entirely of trash, mostly cool drink bottles. Although it is a little strange, I kind of like it.
I wonder if he comes alive and walks around at night?
These two cannon sit on the station platform at Muizenberg train station. They were supposed to have been used during the Battle of Muizenberg in 1795, fought between the British and the Dutch. The British won, resulting on the the 1st British Occupation.
There is a pedestrian crossing by the beach at Muizenberg train station. The surfers often use it to move between the surf shops on the main road and the beach. This shot was taken looking down the tracks towards Muizenberg Station, literally on the tracks. Yes I did look first and please don’t try it at home :-).
Here is a zoomed in version.
The signbar of Muizenberg trainstation, with False Bay and Simonstown in the background. If you travel on the trains in Cape Town, you will see these signs at every station.
Most of the coast of False Bay all the way from Simonstown to Cape Point consists of these stoney beaches. While you can’t really swin here, it provides a wonderful view when out walking or cycling. Further out are excellent fishing and diving spots.
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