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Thursday 1 July 2010
Sunday 27 June 2010
Rubbish Wi-Fi and not so good England
Well this has been a bit of a cock up on the internet access front. We rented a dongle but you need to buy data in 50MB chunks so it would cost a fortune. The V&A Waterfront was meant to have free wi-fi access but there's been a technical hitch! I imagine they'll get it sorted by the time we leave. So, we're sat in the Cape Town Tourism office uploading some photos before heading out for the day.
I went to the England game last night. Cape Town was buzzing all day, flags everywhere. The team was a bit of a let down and if they don't pull their socks up against Slovenia on Wednesday they'll be home before us!
Anyway, I'll chuck a few pics on here for now before we head off for the day...
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I went to the England game last night. Cape Town was buzzing all day, flags everywhere. The team was a bit of a let down and if they don't pull their socks up against Slovenia on Wednesday they'll be home before us!
Anyway, I'll chuck a few pics on here for now before we head off for the day...
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Tuesday 8 June 2010
Saturday 5 June 2010
Saturday 29 May 2010
Thursday 27 May 2010
Nike Write the Future Full Version (HD)
I thought I'd better post the full length version after showing the teasers.
Only 14 and a bit days to go to kick off!
Only 14 and a bit days to go to kick off!
Wednesday 26 May 2010
I was having a look at ticket availability on the FIFA website and Port Elizabeth is looking like a good bet if you want to see some games. Is this because of its location or the games that are being staged there?
Of all the venues to be hosting games in a few weeks time, there are four geographical outposts: Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The other locations (Johannesburg, Tshwane/Pretoria, Rustenburg, Nelspruit and Polokwane) are relatively close to each other and easily driveable for those wishing to move around a bit and see a few games. It'll be chilly up there though.
Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate and is easy to get to and was always going to be popular. The fact that France, Italy, England and Holland are all playing there during the group stages will help. There are currently no tickets available for any games in Cape Town. If you wanted to drive to the nearest venue from Cape Town to take in another game, that would be Port Elizabeth 750 km away. It would cost you a couple of hundred quid per person for a return flight on Kulula, the low cost airline. I don't think it normally costs this much!
Port Elizabeth is lucky enough to be hosting England, Germany, Portugal and Cote d' Ivoire amongst others - but there are still tickets available. The next stop travelling along the coast would be Durban, a further 950 km away. Or maybe you would prefer Bloemfontein heading north and inland for around 650 km. From Durban, Johannesburg is 550 km or 400km from Bloemfontein. To get around you need to be up north.
Durban might be more attractive than Port Elizabeth with its beaches and hosting Brazil v Portugal, as well as Germany, Spain and Netherlands. Lucky Durban. If they hadn't have been so lucky in terms of the draw there may still have been plenty of match tickets available. So maybe it was a bit of a lottery. We bought tickets before the draw was made for the first two games in Cape Town as we knew we were staying there, because it's Cape Town and it wouldn't matter which games we went to see. Although if we had've guessed better we could've had England v Algeria tickets first off! Port Elizabeth has Addo Elephant Park though, somewhere we intend to go at some point in the future. But not for this trip. Bloemfontein is close to Kimberley, home to The Big Hole diamond mine so there are other major attractions in the more isolated World Cup venues but possibly not enough to compensate for their respective distances from Jo'burg, Pretoria and the like.
I think that unless you can afford to take quite a few internal fights, or you have a booked a package with a tour operator then basing yourself in one location is the best option. Jo'burg would probably be best from a geographical point of view but based on our one 24 hour stay there, I wouldn't want to stay there for two weeks.
Give me Cape Town any day.
Of all the venues to be hosting games in a few weeks time, there are four geographical outposts: Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The other locations (Johannesburg, Tshwane/Pretoria, Rustenburg, Nelspruit and Polokwane) are relatively close to each other and easily driveable for those wishing to move around a bit and see a few games. It'll be chilly up there though.
Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate and is easy to get to and was always going to be popular. The fact that France, Italy, England and Holland are all playing there during the group stages will help. There are currently no tickets available for any games in Cape Town. If you wanted to drive to the nearest venue from Cape Town to take in another game, that would be Port Elizabeth 750 km away. It would cost you a couple of hundred quid per person for a return flight on Kulula, the low cost airline. I don't think it normally costs this much!
Port Elizabeth is lucky enough to be hosting England, Germany, Portugal and Cote d' Ivoire amongst others - but there are still tickets available. The next stop travelling along the coast would be Durban, a further 950 km away. Or maybe you would prefer Bloemfontein heading north and inland for around 650 km. From Durban, Johannesburg is 550 km or 400km from Bloemfontein. To get around you need to be up north.
Durban might be more attractive than Port Elizabeth with its beaches and hosting Brazil v Portugal, as well as Germany, Spain and Netherlands. Lucky Durban. If they hadn't have been so lucky in terms of the draw there may still have been plenty of match tickets available. So maybe it was a bit of a lottery. We bought tickets before the draw was made for the first two games in Cape Town as we knew we were staying there, because it's Cape Town and it wouldn't matter which games we went to see. Although if we had've guessed better we could've had England v Algeria tickets first off! Port Elizabeth has Addo Elephant Park though, somewhere we intend to go at some point in the future. But not for this trip. Bloemfontein is close to Kimberley, home to The Big Hole diamond mine so there are other major attractions in the more isolated World Cup venues but possibly not enough to compensate for their respective distances from Jo'burg, Pretoria and the like.
I think that unless you can afford to take quite a few internal fights, or you have a booked a package with a tour operator then basing yourself in one location is the best option. Jo'burg would probably be best from a geographical point of view but based on our one 24 hour stay there, I wouldn't want to stay there for two weeks.
Give me Cape Town any day.
Monday 24 May 2010
Saturday 22 May 2010
Sunday 16 May 2010
Write The Future (Nike Teasers)
Nike always do something special for their promos. Here are a couple of teasers for the mini movies which I understand will be showed during the Champions League Final on the 22nd May...which is a Saturday (what's that all about?)
The videos, which feature Ronaldinho & Wayne Rooney, are courtesy of Studs Up which is a very funny football comic strip. So thanks for that Mr Chris Toy. Enjoy and look forward to the full versions next Saturday (still not right).
Ronaldinho:
Rooney:
The videos, which feature Ronaldinho & Wayne Rooney, are courtesy of Studs Up which is a very funny football comic strip. So thanks for that Mr Chris Toy. Enjoy and look forward to the full versions next Saturday (still not right).
Ronaldinho:
Rooney:
Friday 14 May 2010
Bo Kaap - Cape Town
This is must see for any visitor to Cape Town, Bo Kaap is the Malay Quarter and has lots of lovely coloured houses.
Beach at Bloubergstrand Cape Town
We recommend a visit to this beach for beautiful views of Table Mountain which is about 20 minutes from the Waterfront at Cape Town
Muizenberg Beach (Near Cape Town) South Africa
Some photos from our previous visits to South Africa.
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Wednesday 12 May 2010
Conspiracy Theory
It'll be an adventure if we ever get there.
It's with some worry that I write the inaugural post of this blog. This week the Icelandic ash cloud is on the move and disrupting flights across Europe and British Airways cabin crew are to strike on no less than four occasions.
The fourth period of strike action is the one that really concerns us, and no doubt many more who are booked to travel, as it runs between 5th and 9th June - just two days prior to the opening ceremony in Johannesburg. We are booked with BA, flying out to Cape Town on the 10th June so it is any backlog of flights which could affect us. This is particularly frustrating as we booked our flights on the first week of sale, eleven months before travelling. We thought we were organised. Best laid plans...
We have tickets for Match 2 on 11th June, which is Uruguay v France, so we really need to be there. If all goes well, we arrive in Cape Town at around 8am. We need to collect the match tickets and the hire car at the airport which should see us in our accommodation in the city centre by lunchtime.
The thing is, we love Cape Town, well actually everywhere that we have visited in South Africa has been great. Driving the Garden Route, whale watching in Hermanus and Witsand, safari in Pilansberg, Durban, Jo'burg and even Sun City was alright. For a posh Butlins. So when it was announced that South Africa would host the first World Cup on African soil, there was no question of us not going. That's six years in the planning and now there seems to be a conspiracy to stop us going. We were starting to plan what we needed to buy, last week I secured a ticket for the England v Algeria game and I need to download World in Motion for my iPod . The excitement was building. And then this.
We can only hope that the two sides involved come to an agreement, avoiding any strike action, so that we can switch to holiday mode and start to relax in the build to what should be a wonderful adventure.
It's with some worry that I write the inaugural post of this blog. This week the Icelandic ash cloud is on the move and disrupting flights across Europe and British Airways cabin crew are to strike on no less than four occasions.
The fourth period of strike action is the one that really concerns us, and no doubt many more who are booked to travel, as it runs between 5th and 9th June - just two days prior to the opening ceremony in Johannesburg. We are booked with BA, flying out to Cape Town on the 10th June so it is any backlog of flights which could affect us. This is particularly frustrating as we booked our flights on the first week of sale, eleven months before travelling. We thought we were organised. Best laid plans...
We have tickets for Match 2 on 11th June, which is Uruguay v France, so we really need to be there. If all goes well, we arrive in Cape Town at around 8am. We need to collect the match tickets and the hire car at the airport which should see us in our accommodation in the city centre by lunchtime.
The thing is, we love Cape Town, well actually everywhere that we have visited in South Africa has been great. Driving the Garden Route, whale watching in Hermanus and Witsand, safari in Pilansberg, Durban, Jo'burg and even Sun City was alright. For a posh Butlins. So when it was announced that South Africa would host the first World Cup on African soil, there was no question of us not going. That's six years in the planning and now there seems to be a conspiracy to stop us going. We were starting to plan what we needed to buy, last week I secured a ticket for the England v Algeria game and I need to download World in Motion for my iPod . The excitement was building. And then this.
We can only hope that the two sides involved come to an agreement, avoiding any strike action, so that we can switch to holiday mode and start to relax in the build to what should be a wonderful adventure.
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