The Tank
Cape Quarter, De Waterkant Street, Cape Town 8001, South Africa - 021 419 0007. This is great if you enjoy Sashimi or Sushi, but in the complex of the Cape Quarters there is a good choice of restaurants. Historically the Cape Quarters I am told used to be where slaves were sold many years ago.
The Headquarters Restaurant, a very interesting place and the best steak in town. No Menu because all they do is Sirloin Steak, rare medium or well done. The Headquarters restaurant is part of a bigger complex, The Cape Heritage Hotel has to offer. The Caveau Deli and Resturant, Simply Asia Restaurant, Africa Café and the Savoy Cabbage Restaurant.
92 Bree Street
Heritage Square
Shortmarket Street
Cape Town
Tel: 021 424 8154
In Long Street an Old School Friend of Charlie’s, runs a Tapas bar called The Fork. Ed Saunders has created with his partner a friendly restaurant providing great food at sensible prices.
Kennedys Cigar Lounge and Restaurant, still offers great atmosphere. Downstairs the Dubliner @ Kennedys offers great live pub music during the week and Jazz on Sunday evening.
The Farm Stall just south of Napier is a quaint and charming place to stop off at if you want to try some good old fashioned quality food on your way down to L`Agulhas.
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Struisbaai has a population of 1200 and L'Agulhas a population of 600, this weekend they expect 30 to 50,000 visitors at the Yellow fish Festival. we took a look earlier this week, at the most southern point of Africa in L'Agulhas where the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans meet.
Hemisphere Freight organised the return of the land rover from Cape Town through Meihuizen International.
This Morning I met Peter Meihuizen from Meihuizen International and his colleague Shehanial Jacaobs who will be dealing with Customs before exporting the vehicle.
Peter Meihuizen gave me an hour of his time this morning and shared some interesting information. The indigenous people of Cape Town the Hottentots’ were nearly completely wiped out in the mid 19th century by Tuberculosis and the remaining blacks are now virtually all Xhosa from the Eastern Cape. There are a few thousand San from Namibia in the Western Cape as well.
To catch up on the Angolan Oil situation, the biggest problem the exporters are experiencing in Cabinda is the shallow draft, along the coast, of only about three point five to four metres. This does restrict heavy loading of vessels’. 70 % of the oil from Cabinda appears to be going through Chevron Oil to the States and the balance to Europe through BP.
The Township area of Cape Town still cover a vast area but this has been reducing in recent times.
This Weather Spider wouldn’t sit still for the Camera and ended up a little worse for off…
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Schalk Burger runs a mainly Land Rover garage, specialising in service, maintenance and repair work on Land Rovers and other 4 X 4 vehicles. We called in for a gear box top up, just under a litre of ep 90, plus the labour, he charged us an astonishing 22 rand. With 14.6 rand to the pound at the moment this represented reasonable value. A good recommendation for any other over Landers. Address to follow…
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( 2.9 / 236 )At the Waterfront
Here at last...
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We left after breakfast, heading out with some locals down a deep sand track south. The coast line very beautiful, the sand quite hard work for the landy. The tyre pressure reduced to one bar gave us a better foot print for travelling.
The tracks along the south coast are very unreliable and pita out to nothing or into the sea at various intervals, so unless you have good shocks, low pressure for your tyres and plenty of time and fuel I suggest an alternative route. The reward for taking the time is awesome some scenery and some scary driving.
After mid day we headed away from the coast and caught up with a local Afrikans farming family to compare notes. Hannes and Friedel Eksteen, treated us to some refreshments (water melon and juice) before giving us a farm tour with the rest of the family, Kay, Anina, Jane and his son Lochader.
Hannes farms 1000 ha with 400ha in wheat and 600 ha being grazed by his 500 Nguni indigenous cattle (started in Egypt) and 400 sheep (200 marino and 200 indigenous).
With one to five tonne per ha depending mainly on the rainfall, Hannes has to watch his inputs. Currently the wheat prices ex farm are £164.00 per tonne. One fungicide after flag leaf and two herbicides, pre-em, roundup(1L/ha) and trifluralin(2L/ga). The seed is direct drilled. A neat combination drill/sprayer.
Hannes employs 3 local people, and explains at the moment politics of Zimbabwe haven’t affected them yet. The population in the western cape is around 3 locals to 1 white, but closer to Kruger and the eastern Transvaal there are 100 locals to one white. The pressure for land reformation is a mounting reality. The local people wanting to go back to grazing the land, the whites are currently intensively farming. Land prices in the Western Cape are currently approx 2500 rand per ha (£722/acre).
Finally we got to Cape Town at eight thirty…..
There’s been some changes here. Long Streets restaurant Kennedy’s once a very up market restaurant is now part Irish Pub called the Dubliner, good fun but totally different.
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