Cape Town Style

going green - CT style

The news that our planet is in a bad way has reached the outer edges of our planet... and on the outer edge of Africa, Cape Townians have come up with a unique, environmentally-friendly air-conditioning system. Safe for use on highways. Americans, sit up and TAKE NOTE!

Model-Shmodel Mother City

Cape Town wouldn't be Cape Town if upon arrival one didn't walk into a fashion shoot and have models called Romy or Kendra or Taylor lounging all over the place. And in this case 'walk into a fashion shoot' means 'live under the same roof as'... yip, that's right, there is a shoot going on in my hotel. Room 102 is where they are casting and making up and snapping and talking very loudly and importantly on cell phones.

Meanwhile, the hotel cannot deal with the fashion people's and my mac computers, so we cannot hook into the wi-fi network and are forced to share the hotel computers with Swedish teenagers who hog public terminals with their 5 msn chat windows flashing simultaneously! SA is not Apple-friendly yet. Which is surprising, seeing as Granny Smith is a local(har, har - booo).

And speaking of friendly, I'm being bumped off my seat by a conspicously tall, blond, Swedish teenager so I'd bette....... (bump, uagh)