Mount Nelson Hotel by Orient-Express
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The Green Nelly
- Tamlin Wightman When you first think of the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, you think of extravagance and superfluous waste and and and... and you'd be right. But the Mother City icon has implemented various onsite eco initiatives to atone for their green sins. For one, they've made worms popular, at least in the Cape. Their vermiculture centre …
Bread from the Bakers
... it and at times have felt a bit over our heads. I mean, we often think that if you take a kid from generations and generations of dysfunctional families and you put them in a new ‘functional’ family unit as a child, that they’ll grow up fine, but the truth is that they carry so much baggage and stuff from their parents and parents parents whether its genetic or spiritual and it’s really quite complex ...
A Year Ago Today...
... and a few others from our class are working with an organisation in one of the townships called R-Labs. R-Labs is an organisation established to help rehabilitate ex-gang members and drug addicts in the community by helping them learn various computer skills. As the centre evolved, members from the community started creating their own social media platforms and apps to help solve social issues and connect others throughout ...
Luxury end to our African holiday.
... the car.
But I diverge. The weather in cape town was appalling, and for two days we could not see more than about 20 metres. Was table mountain a myth? We did take a drive down to the cape of good hope, which I always thought was the most southern point in Africa, but turns out it is not. Still pretty cool to go there, and great to meet some African penguins at Boulder Beach on the way home, just as they were heading to their nests for the night (and after ...
Cape Crusaders
... I’d expected to find the township tour unsettling and had felt a little uncomfortable at the thought of visiting a shanty town as a tourist. In fact it was... inspiring seems the right word. Despite squalor, deprivation and high unemployment (25% of South Africans are unemployed), a tremendous sense of pride, dignity and community shone through. We were made very welcome, touring the community centre, an old Pass Law court, the shanty town as well as ...
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- Free High-Speed Internet
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Restaurant
- Fitness/Health center
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