FIFA Fan Fest tent erected on the Grand Parade in Cape Town CORRECTION ! Its not for the Fifa Fan Fest SEE BELOW

I just received this e mail and its self explanatory

Thank you so much Gerry !

Hi Joanne,

BTW I have your site as a Favourite .. every since you turned up on my Google with some amazing images of the CT Stadium.

I just wanted to correct your April 23 entry ... what's happening on the Grand Parade at the moment has nothing to do with FIFA and the upcoming Fan Fest location ... it's for the Red Bull Street Style World Final on April 27 / 28 and that fabulous dome structure will be gone a few days later.

I work for Gearhouse Cape Town and it's our handiwork!

Cheers
Gerry
PS... tried to post a comment on your site but even tho I logged in, Blogger returned an error!

 

Here local soccer fans will rub shoulders with visitors from all over the world while watching the matches and highlights on a big screen. Live performances by local artists on a huge stage and sound system will entertain fans in between matches. Food and drinks, official 2010 FIFA World Cup merchandising and local arts and crafts will also be on display or for sale.

The Grand Parade, newly upgraded by the City of Cape Town at a cost of around R22 million, can host up to 25 000 people. It is Cape Town’s oldest public space and one of Cape Town’s most important heritage sites - where Nelson Mandela first spoke to the world as a free man 20 years ago.

The Fan Fest will be open every day of the Competition, from 10:00 to midnight, with live broadcasts of all 64 matches. Entrance is free.

Meanwhile they broke the new Fritz Sonnenberg road up again to reveal this interesting pattern

Yes you guessed it ..Another facade strip done today..

and the tents on the old site are steadily growing

70 Days to go to the biggest fight on earth ! See the Green Point updates here !

                                                      The Fritz Sonnenberg road
                                I drive by almost every day and love this road

                            

An update about this area

 The stands will be refurbished and this old Green Point Stadium site

 will be rehabilitated to become the city's new athletics track, after the World Cup

During the World Cup the site will be used as a hospitality area

                               and will look much like a village of white "tents" they use for all the big events
                               like the last photo of this post

What a mess ..

                                
                                                                   Yours truly..having fun !
                                                                    (taken with self timer)

I stopped off at the Lower Buitengracht to take a few shots of the new pedestrian bridge

which is part of the fan walk

Imagine walking over this bridge

to our stunning new Stadium

to the biggest show on earth

in one of the most beautiful places in the world

the exitement palpable all around...

Just 70 days to go !

Back home the sky soon turned a bright red

another stunning sunset in Cape Town

but I was starving and left the camera in the bag

As soon as the tented village for the Argus cycle tour was broken down they started building a brand new one It is for the Two Oceans Marathon a 56 km / 35 mile ultra marathon held annually in Cape Town, South Africa on the Saturday of the Easter weekend. Claimed to be "the world's most beautiful marathon", the race is run against a backdrop of spectacular scenery through the Cape Peninsula.



The race starts in Newlands, and follows a more or less circular route through Muizenberg, Fish Hoek, over Chapman's Peak and Constantia Nek, and eventually finishes at the University of Cape Town campus.