Monatsarchive: Mai 2016

Having really sore muscles from climbing Table Mountain. Esp. when descending the stairs. Now I just learned that a colleague of mine in the Dept. of Mechanics ran the Comrades Marathon this very week-end, which is 89,13km! He even did … Weiterlesen →

Signal Hill is the mountain to the west of Cape Town with it’s highest peak being Lions Head. It also is a nice park, that at night is populated with tourists and locals alike to watch the sunset 🙂 Enjoy:

This week-end I had a car… So after doing the shopping for Elke’s & Jona’s arrival, I was out-and-about. I knew I wanted to venture Cape-Town, I just didn’t know where, District 6, or the port again, the Aquarium, the … Weiterlesen →

This past Friday, I was invited to join the departments team-building event, a Potjiekos. A great way to learn about South African culture and even better to get to know the team. In return, they had to try my “Schwäbischen … Weiterlesen →

Together with colleagues, I went for a nice wine-tasting, starting at 11am 🙂 And a wine-tasting it was, when I heard, that out of the three proposed options — we are gonna do them all! Starting at Uva Mira up … Weiterlesen →

Welgevonden Estate has plans to outsource the up-keeping of lawn-mowing, speed controls and general traffic control… However, the personnell is not as trustworthy and keeps chasing the wrong-guys.

This saturday morning at 8am my landlords invited me to join a concert of the primary school, or so I thought. What I didn’t expect was a competition of choirs — and mind You, a nation-wide competition that the choir … Weiterlesen →

Paper deadline is approaching… Glad I have good Music, some Jazz, some classics, right now: “The Approaching Storm”, Chicago “Aqualung”, Jethro Tull “Aquatarkus”, Emerson, Lake & Palmer

This beautiful oldtimer parked in front of the colourful houses at the beach in Muizenberg. It took quite a many shots not to have any bystanders inspecting the car — and have the driver take his seat! But alas, no … Weiterlesen →

  While I do like these Peacocks running about Welgevonden Estate, I do not accept their left-overs on my porch 🙂 . And yes, Mr. Peacock, I do have evidence (apart from the obvious left-overs): by now I have 3 … Weiterlesen →

Friends from Farragut, TN, watch out what I saw here in Welgevonden Estate! What does that remind You of? Hint is in the link below: https://www.tripadvisor.com/VacationRentalReview-g60842-d1927521-Honeysuckle-Gatlinburg_Tennessee.html

Can’t wait for Elke to come here and tell me, what kind of flowers these are…

The sunrises and sunsets were just phenomenal! For the former, I did use Photomatix, for the sunset it’s just another round of playing with RT on the RAW… The RAW is just so much nicer then the preprocessed JPG…

This week-end, I had a rental car — and was driving into the Karoo; a desert with its own beauty… There’s rough hills (up to 1700m), there’s arid land (which in places still allows sheep-farming), but in the west, there’s … Weiterlesen →

Right start on the wrong foot 🙂 What in the world? I mean, I didn’t weigh this pack in front of me, but hey they sure crammed those cereals into that package… Might as well have sat on it… Next … Weiterlesen →

The Joenkershoek valley is beautiful to hike and mountain bike in…  Below You can see one of those MTB trails that end there in mid-height, just to continue in another down-hill race-trail below the road I walked on: I walked … Weiterlesen →

This week-end of the 1st of May, I moved into our new house here in Stellenbosch; and I am glad, I may call it home right away. It is such a lovely, well-thought out, personal and cared-for space: As I … Weiterlesen →