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Loving Cape Town
I first landed in Cape Town on business. When I saw Table Mountain from the plane window I stopped breathing - the view was too big to take in otherwise. It was a clear, warm, sunny day and Table Mountain stood erect and perfectly proportioned in the middle of the blue African sky. What a sight. I have since come to know that clouds on Table Mountain mean change of weather and wind. Clear mountain means a warm summer's day is to come.
On that first visit I stayed in Camps Bay, the trendy, expensive beach and suburb of Cape Town. The company had rented one of the large, beautiful houses right on the beachfront - I'd wake up earlier just to sit on my verandah and listen to the ocean. In a town market I marveled at the proteas flowers and bought bunches and bunches for the large living and dining area of the rental apartment. I went around beaches, lakes, wine estates and forests filming TV commercials with over 80 children. White, brown, black complexions with dark, blonde and red hair - all the complexions and the colours of the globe found in one city, just for my commercials. It was fun, it was exhausting, I was sun-filled and my eyes were saturated with impressions and natural beauty.
That first time I remember thinking to myself 'I need to come back here again. This is too beautiful a city not to truly explore'. Little did I know that I would marry a South African from Cape Town and that I would find out that his best friend's daughter was starring in one of the very TV commercials that first brought me to the city.
I fell in love with the place, the people and the humour of the South African radio ads.
I was recently at a wedding in Franschhoek and the groom summed up perfectly what I feel about most South Africans I meet - their mix of gentleness and strength makes them irresistible. And I still turn on the car radio every time I am in Cape Town to listen to the ads and laugh, laugh, laugh. In-your-face, cheeky Capetonian humour.
Author : Xanthipe
I first landed in Cape Town on business. When I saw Table Mountain from the plane window I stopped breathing - the view was too big to take in otherwise. It was a clear, warm, sunny day and Table Mountain stood erect and perfectly proportioned in the middle of the blue African sky. What a sight. I have since come to know that clouds on Table Mountain mean change of weather and wind. Clear mountain means a warm summer's day is to come.
On that first visit I stayed in Camps Bay, the trendy, expensive beach and suburb of Cape Town. The company had rented one of the large, beautiful houses right on the beachfront - I'd wake up earlier just to sit on my verandah and listen to the ocean. In a town market I marveled at the proteas flowers and bought bunches and bunches for the large living and dining area of the rental apartment. I went around beaches, lakes, wine estates and forests filming TV commercials with over 80 children. White, brown, black complexions with dark, blonde and red hair - all the complexions and the colours of the globe found in one city, just for my commercials. It was fun, it was exhausting, I was sun-filled and my eyes were saturated with impressions and natural beauty.
That first time I remember thinking to myself 'I need to come back here again. This is too beautiful a city not to truly explore'. Little did I know that I would marry a South African from Cape Town and that I would find out that his best friend's daughter was starring in one of the very TV commercials that first brought me to the city.
I fell in love with the place, the people and the humour of the South African radio ads.
I was recently at a wedding in Franschhoek and the groom summed up perfectly what I feel about most South Africans I meet - their mix of gentleness and strength makes them irresistible. And I still turn on the car radio every time I am in Cape Town to listen to the ads and laugh, laugh, laugh. In-your-face, cheeky Capetonian humour.
Author : Xanthipe
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