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To Kalk Bay for lunch in the fishing harbour. Uncle Max, our 85-year-old lunch companion, remembers when Kalky’s, the dockside fish ‘n chips place, was just a hole in the wall, serving hake and chips soused in salt and vinegar, and wrapped in newspaper. Now there are tables and a covered section so you can get out of the wind if it’s blowing, which it does in great chunks of the year in False Bay. Read More…
To the southern reaches of the Republic to have a look at how the 2010 festivities are coming along. I haven’t been here for a year and things are palpably different.
For starters, Cape Town now has a new skyline. Before now, the three Tampax Towers – the frontrunners of a National Party idiocy to drag Cape Town into the Space Age – clung fiercely to the apparent honour of being visible from far out to sea or the Moon or whatever. That privilege now belongs to the hulking stadium in Green Point which squats at the base of Signal Hill like a cave troll. Read More…
Alcohol and aircraft do not mix. Pilots know this, which is why aeroplanes, unlike bottles of sleeping pills and cough medicine, do not have to carry one of those warning stickers that says “Do Not Operate While Taking This Drug”.
So, it is a little alarming to read in India’s tabloid paper Mail Today that pilots in India who report drunk for duty generally avoid being punished. Read More…
US hoteliers are really feeling the pinch as they experience their worst trading conditions since 9/11. Read More…
Two old South African Airways postcards from the 1960s show just how much things have changed, and not just the paint schemes either. Read More…
Here’s a real conundrum. Traffic jams are good for us and our fragile blue Earth. Read More…
Britain’s airport operator BAA has sold Gatwick Airport south of London for £1.51 billion to Global Infrastructure Partners, an investment fund that also owns London City airport.
Six thousand miles away on the balmy coast of KwaZulu-Natal, another international airport is also up for sale, only the buyer probably won’t be interested in flying planes. Read More…
Lufthansa is relaunching FlyNet, its inflight broadband Internet service, from mid-2010.
FlyNet is a reworked version of its earlier inflight Internet service which it first launched in the Dark Ages of 2003. Then, the airline was the first commercial carrier to offer inflight web access. The service lasted until 2006 when it was withdrawn by its partner, Connexion by Boeing. Read More…
I have just been sent this wonderful picture of Cape Town airport as it looked back in about 1960.
Back then, you were rewarded with a sweeping view of Table Mountain the second you stepped out of the terminal. What a fine welcome to Cape Town. Read More…
Upmarket cruise line The Yachts of Seabourn has decided to quit cruising the Indian Ocean due to piracy fears. Read More…
