Tag Archives: Cape Town

Real Mountain

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2010

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: while Table Mountain is the iconic Cape Town landmark, Devils Peak is by far the most charismatic of the Cape Town mountains. It looks like a proper mountain whichever side you view it from – it’s got a pointy top and the view from up there must be spectacular. [...]

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Busy Day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 23, 2010

Today always promised to be a hectic day – from appointments in the morning, lunch with football friends and an afternoon at the Stadium through to the fancy dress party in the evening. Hence I am utilising the somewhat risky, but very helpful “scheduled post” option on WordPress. And I’m giving you a quota photo of the all-new, [...]

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Here is the answer

By 6000 | 6000 | January 21, 2010

I debated long and hard about this post, but then I decided that although it goes against a lot of the rules that I have set on 6000 miles… , they were my rules anyway and it would be fine to bend them a little. If you’re me. This approach has worked for monarchies and [...]

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Not me

By 6000 | 6000 | January 17, 2010

In answer to the multitude of email that has arrived (1): no, this isn’t me. I find personalised number plates completely tacky. And I wouldn’t ever drive a Merc again after they dropped their sponsorship deal with 6000 miles… over that incident with the Latvian escort girl, the honey badger and the celery. So no, [...]

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Power cut

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2010

Just a quick quota photo effort from me this evening. We had a power cut at work this afternoon which left all of us playing catch up – due to a fault at the Koeberg Switching Station, apparently. Someone evidently switched it off.   Add to that the oppressive heat (43°C when I left work), [...]

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