I am in love with its chilled atmosphere, the shady benches at Company Gardens right in the middle of the city; the ambitious exhibitions at the Art Museum; Charly's and the German Dinkel bakery - two businesses on either end of the baked goods spectrum, both perfectly formed; the not at all tacky V&A waterfront, which could so easily have gone wrong, but is surprisingly entertaining; baboons and seals right there in town; the incredible Aquarium - can't wait to dive with the sharks there; its similarity to Wellington which I miss terribly (not the crap autumn weather that they're probably having by now, though).
After Joburg and the constant warnings to watch your back - and your bag - I found myself wary to the point of paranoia walking the streets. I felt silly since certainly the CBD is perfectly harmless. Makes me wonder what is possible in Joburg CBD if one would just dare walk there.
Lesson learnt: when driving past a group of baboons, keep your windows up and don't leave the car. As we watched another car was invaded by a mother/child team of apish thiefs who emptied a stolen bag into the road in search for food only to bare their over-sized canines at anyone daring to take their loot off them.
Just had to tell you how much I love that photograph, it's amazing.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I took it with my iPhone at the Castle of Good Hope and did some editing magic on the phone with Camerabag, a program that applies some cool filters to the sometimes a bit bland pictures the iPhone takes. This is the Lulu filter, something like a Lomo camera would produce, I understand. That's my mum in the doorway, but that's [probably more information than you needed ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh, and there are more photos like that on my flickrstream (see right column).