Long weekends are made for afternoon naps, brunch, catching up on reading and friendships, taking in a movie, drinking away the evenings and pretty much doing whatever if it is you feel like... which is exactly what I did this weekend. (Kind of appropriate since the long weekend incorporated a national holiday celebrating human rights.)
On balmy Sunday afternoon, we headed over to The Biscuit Mill for the second annual We Love Real Beer festival. It was an amazing opportunity to try artisinal beers that you don't normally have mainstream access to. Among the list were Napier, Camelthorn, Paulaner, Jack Black, Boston, Brewers & Union, Darling Slow Brew, Mitchell's and Birkenhead, as well as some honey mead. I was not going to pass up savouring the delicious food on offer from Oded's Kitchen to Pete Goffe-Wood's Kitchen Cowboy sirloin sandwiches to the stuffed-pig-on-a-spit Porchetta ciabatta from Jardine Bakery. I left having drained a couple of pints (and claimed a couple of pounds!) completely satisfied. We Love Real Beer is set to grow every year, so watch the blog for the next festival.
And if you're really thirsty, and can't wait till next year, the bottle store Tops (located among some gorgeous shops in the Cape Quarter) stocks craft beers. They make for a cool gift idea. Pick up the We Love Real Beer glasses (for 20 bucks) from &Union. Great excuse to stop by for a beer!
PS Check out photographer Andrew Brauteseth's blog for some images that really capture the atmosphere.
Hello from London,
ReplyDeleteWe just wanted to stop by and let you know that we love what you're doing with Notes From My Nest. We also wanted to offer a way for us to work together.
Who we are? We're two London based editors with deceptively French sounding names. We travel, read and engage in creative projects across the board and know how difficult it can be to find inspiring content written by local people. So we're doing something about it by starting Chorus+Echo - www.chorusandecho.com - C+E is way to give our readers informed access to ideas and cities across the World, while at the same time giving our family of contributors a far larger audience and an opportunity for them to make a little bit (but hopefully a lot!) more money from their content.
We have spent months pouring over thousands upon thousands of blogs and sites and have decided to launch in 20 cities with a handful of blogs in each. We would love to work with you here in London, in Cape Town and beyond. We would use the content you post up on your blog, so there's no extra work for you at all. At the same time you would be credited for any content, which means extra traffic for baby-birdie.blogspot.com.
We've also secured a number of incredible bloggers from around the world, too many to list here but including notably: http://dprbcn.wordpress.com - Barcelona, http://siliconhutong.com - Beijing, www.uberlin.co.uk - Berlin, http://bainspiration.com/en - Buenos Aires, www.themoneyillusion.com - Chicago, http://bmdesign.tumblr.com - Global, http://freeartlondon.wordpress.com - London, http://mexicanflamboyant.blogspot.com - Mexico City, www.forthebeat.com/blog - New York, http://unlockparis.blogspot.com - Paris, www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg - Stockholm and the aforementioned www.spoon-tamago.com - Tokyo/New York.
If you have any questions don't hesitate to get in touch with either of us. We can send you more info about the project.
Hope you're interested in getting involved!
Jean-Robert and Luc Le Corre
Great to hear from you, Jean-Robert and Luc. Sounds like a very exciting project. Have dropped you a mail to find out more.
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