May 2012

Saturday Snapshots #194

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Composition with dandelion and Reichstag, Berlin – May 2012

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Corrigan’s Mayfair

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  When is a wine not a real wine?  And no, this is not a “how long is a piece of string” type of nonsense question with no answer; nor is it a reference to the disturbing “wine-style beverages” that you sometimes find lurking in the dark corners of the supermarket wine aisles, that bear [...]

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Gorgeous by Graham Beck – a bubbly bar in Cape Town

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  It had been one of those days. We had arrived in Cape Town early in the morning from London after a night of little sleep, non-functioning seat-back TVs and rather too much alcohol (refer to previous item regarding seat-back TVs!).  I had purchased a data bundle at the airport to load onto my South [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #193

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  Surf’s up – Noordhoek, Cape Town – Feb 2011

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Feng Sushi Billingsgate with Silla Bjerrum

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  When I was at school, one of my brother’s friends used to refer to himself as “having grown up in the Bronx”.  With a ponceyness well beyond his years, he was appropriating for himself the role of the poor underdog, making his way in his world of rich kids using only his razor sharp [...]

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Roasted carrot and coriander soup

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  When I was back home in South Africa recently, as usual, I stayed at my brother’s house.  It’s about as different from my own house in London as you can get – and I don’t just mean because it’s a gazillion times bigger and has a swimming pool!  No, the real differences are on [...]

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