We Are Closed On Good Friday

Is this the best view in the heart of Cape Town ?

                                I would think so ..unless you can beat this ?

                                                               
                                                                      Granger Bay


PS
Sorry Stephen  Not tonight :) the promised post will come tomorrow I am just home from the movies and have a headache I need my beauty sleep

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.

Walked along Bantry Bay, Clifton Had a drink with view of the stadium at The Grand Café & Beach, See photos

Bantry Bay

It was such great weather today and so I brought my camera along my wander along the Atlantic ocean

 and made a point of showing you how the other half lives

Bantry Bay is known to be the most wind free area in Cape Town. Secluded and  protected, this exclusive area enjoys about 290 wind free days per year - a significant fact given Cape Town's windy climate

The foot path along the ocean

You can walk all the way from the V&A Waterfront to Camps Bay,

it is well used in the weekends and very busy every evening,

people exercising, walking, running, jogging, cycling etc

Click images to en large

 

Lions Head towering on the left

Table Mountain and the 12 Apostles Mountain Range hidden in the clouds

+ the 4 beaches of Clifton ahead

Clifton

And all these have a slice of heaven :)

More about Clifton here

I got some sugar white sand between my toes on third beach and

then headed back to Green Point for a late afternoon drink

and landed at

the Grand Café & Beach

which is located at Granger Bay between the Radisson Blu Hotel

 and the  V&A Waterfront.

A once-abandoned warehouse has been transformed into a quirky

restaurant on a man made beach

this is the long pure white bar complete with cherub detail

A big deck with tables for lunch and dinner or Indian day beds to laze around on

and a beach bar

The Grand Cafe , although not nearly as glamarous ...

it reminded me of similar clubs in Spain  

I enjoyed an hour of sipping my drink, watching people

and it got busier while I was there

That is the small man made beach of The Grand Cafe&Beach

I only had one glass of wine (R44 ) but heard that the food is average

 and the place has some teething problems

The views are stunning all around

and you are literally a stone's throw from the stadium

Today the focus is on the remains of the old Green Point Stadium

Cape Town stadium facade gap is now closed

                                   The open gap they were using to put the temporarely seats through,
                                                                      was closed off on friday

Cape Town Stadium black out See what Earth Hour looked like in Green Point, Cape Town

They started off with the lights on inside and the roof as well, then the lights were all switched off which was weird to see

after the hour of darkness was finished they switched on all the lights. Incidently they are whipped on in a second

and for the first time in ages all the edge lights were switched on as well

then when I looked up from my laptop I saw half the lights were again switched off

See the photo below

just 2 rows of lights at the bottom on,

 which is a first for me to see