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Travel
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My Residence ‘Cape Royale’ Is Up For World Luxury Hotel Award!
17 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
My primary residence, the Cape Royale Hotel, has been nominated again for the World Luxury Hotel Awards! As with most things here on 2oceansvibe, we like to show our support for the brands we care about and who care about us. My love for the Cape Royale knows no bounds and you need only check […]
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Swine Flu Returns To Gauteng, Over 100 Treated Already
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Beeld newspaper this morning reported that a Johannesburg school will be closed for a week after a break-out of mumps and swine flu. The King’s School, situated in the Sandton suburb of Linbro Park stopped classes last week after about six pupils contracted mumps and another two swine flu, said the school’s principal John Pilkington.
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Naked Hiking: Germany And Switzerland Debate Nude-Friendly Nature Trails
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A hiking trail for nudists opened about a year ago near the town of Dankerode, Germany, about 320 kilometres west of Berlin. The trail was an instant hit and also saw one open in Switzerland, where the issue of nude hiking will soon be taken up by the Supreme Court. Nude Hiking Day coincidentally takes place on June 21.
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Go Ahead, Search Me
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Random security checks are commonplace in the states. Surely these people are eventually going to get tired of having full body pat-downs while, say, shopping for discounted Caesar salads at their local Costco, you say. Well, the guys at 4th Amendment Wear are definitely bored with the American security tyranny.
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Insight: The Kruger National Park Hotel Development Saga
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
2oceansVibe staffer and avowed earthchild, Bearded Wiseman, sinks his teeth into the weighty issue of hotel development in the Kruger National Park, and nails his colours firmly to the mast of the godless neo-conservative capitalists who critics say want to turn the Kruger National Park into Disney Land. Notes from the thinking man’s greeny – here’s […]
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Joburg’s Only Refugee Centre To Close
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Johannesburg is undoubtedly the economic centre of Africa. With this follows the allure of prosperity and the chance to better ones life through economic empowerment and social status. Now the only centre for asylum seekers and refugees in Joberg will be closed after local businesses won a court application against the Department of Home Affairs.
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Gauteng Police Commissioner’s Rented Home To Cost R745 000
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South African police commissioners have notably enjoyed the odd perk here and there when it comes to matters of their private lives. It has emerged that Gauteng police commissioner, Mzwandile Petros, is no exception to this common occurrence and has a new two year lease costing R30 000 a month.
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Holland Becomes A Lot Less Dope For Tourists
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Some people are calling this ‘tourism suicide’. The Dutch government has announced that by the end of the year, the marijuana-selling coffee shops for which the country is famous will be closed to foreigners.
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German Hotel Holding Parties In Former Nazi Work Camps
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Please save your ‘holla-caust’ comments for the end of the article. Hotel Stadt Hameln, a four-star hotel in northern Germany, has converted an on-site jail into a themed party location, sort of the way the Nazis converted the jail into a forced labour camp during World War II. Some people are angry about this.
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Tapas And Jazz Sundays At The EighteenHundred Grill Room
25 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Some places hold specials. Others hold special events. The EighteenHundred Grill Room is one such place, and what with it perched beneath my beloved residence, the Cape Royale Hotel, I’ve been known to nip in there more regularly than not. They’re laying on the special treatment this winter with a Tapas and Jazz series, happening […]
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Bonjour!
24 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Naughty… I can’t carry on pretending I am dealing with ‘it’ (Winter) with you. I’m not. I should come clean and admit that I am in Provence at the moment. In Menerbes, to be precise – which forms part of the Luberon Valley or “Côte d’Azur”. I go every year as you will see by […]
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Buy A Flight To The Edge Of Space At Auction
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Look, I know bidding at an auction is an intimdating business. What the hell’s the deal with those wooden panels? Why is that fat man with the shiny face speaking so quickly? Why can’t I stop myself? What does he mean, “Sold”? Did I just bid away my unborn child’s tuition fees for the sake […]
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Texas Trying To Ban TSA Searches
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since 9/11, flying has sucked. For all of the wrong reasons, flight security has become paranoid and despotic, and nowhere worse than the USA – where TSA agents have manhandled infants and the infirm in ‘the war on terror.’ So it’s nice to see that the Texas House of Representatives just banned TSA searches without probable cause.
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First Class Passenger Attempts To Smuggle Leopard Cubs, Panthers, A Bear And Monkeys
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 36 year old United Arab Emirates citizen, who was waiting to check in for his first class flight at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, has been detained by undercover anti-trafficking officers for attempting to smuggle a bizarre mix of rare creatures. The animals had been drugged and were headed for Dubai.
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Joburg’s Ranking On World’s 26 Best Cities for Business, Life, and Innovation
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new survey was recently done of the global capital cities of finance, innovation and tourism. The report graded 26 metros from Stockholm to Santiago on business opportunities, culture, livability, and innovation. Johannesburg, the only African city on the list, came in at number 25 – basically beating only Mumbai.
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Indulgent Live Jazz And Wine Evening At The Cape Royale Hotel
03 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
There’s not much more that needs to be said, is there? No, is the answer. It’s pretty much all you needed to hear. Do you even need me to push you over the edge by mentioning the four-course gourmet gastronomic journey, prepared by renowned Chef Jonathan Gargan? Probably not. Seriously, get a grip – it’s […]
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Entire Himalayan Male Voice Choir Vanishes At Heathrow
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s understandable that one of the world’s busiest airports has been even busier during the course of the last week. London was expecting an influx of around 600 000 tourists alone and it’s now emerged that 10 members of a visiting male Himalayan choir have used the opportunity and “absconded”. Cue an interesting episode of UK Border Force.
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Buy An Entire Italian Village For $800 000
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The recession is serving up another good deal, friends. For about R5,4 million you can buy the historic village of Valle Piola in Italy. It’s surrounded by wild and mountainous terrain, and is set in the heart of one of the country’s biggest national parks, Gran Sasso.
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Hotel Linen: Towel Thieves’ Comeuppance
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Linen Technology Tracking from Miami, Florida, recently patented a radio-frequency identification chip that’s been designed to manage stock counts of inventory items that frequently get mislaid or stolen. Enter: hotel linen protection. You’re going to need to think twice about nicking that towel now.
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Johannesburg Infested By Bearded Rats
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember the story about the Pied Piper of Hamlyn? He was the guy hired to lure rats away from the city by playing his magic pipe. The city of Johannesburg may be in need of its own modern day PPOH, given the rat infestation currently plaguing the CBD.
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NASA Awards $269 Million For Private Projects
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
On Monday NASA announced it was distributing $269 million to four companies for them to develop spacecraft to take astronauts into orbit. The investment is an Obama administration gamble that will enable commercial companies to get people to and from orbit in quicker time and with less cost.
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Veld Fire Destroys Somerset West Hotel
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nature showed her claws again this weekend in the Western Cape, when Somerset West’s Straightway Head Hotel was ravaged by a veld fire along with 15 other houses on Saturday. Built in 1939, The Straightway Head was a well-known luxury establishment which many of your grandparents would have been familiar with, even if you weren’t.
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Microsoft Launches Streetside As Google Maps Rival
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft has decided to have a real dig at the Google group by launching its own 3D mapping system. The unique selling point thus far – they will be taking numerous precautionary measures to ensure that they don’t fall into the data privacy trap like Google did.
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FearSquare, Because How Dangerous Is Your Location
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The use of the FourSquare application has been popular to say the least. You know, you sign yourself in at a particular place in a brave attempt to make others jealous of where you currently are, it shows up in your various newsfeeds and boom, you are instantly cool. Now there’s FearSquare.
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Scared Of Heights? Take This Pill
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s safe to say that tests are still in their early stages but it’s also safe to say that scientists are quite a bit closer to helping people overcome their fear of heights. They have discovered that by giving people a tablet of the stress hormone cortisol, they can help reduce their phobia.
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Tiffindell Ski Resort Up For Auction
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
South Africa’s only ski resort is due to go under the hammer in May. The resort was embroiled in a long and shady financial scandal that began in 2007 and was eventually forced to close the slopes indefinitely in 2009. But now you can own it!
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Tanzanian Shaman Takes Break, 26km Queue Too Long
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Tanzanian “miracle” pastor, Reverend Ambilikile “Babu” Mwasapile has called for a break. He has temporarily asked people to stop going to his remote home for a “miracle cure” after thousands flocked there, resulting in chaos in the surrounding area.
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Man Opens Chicken Hotel, No Spice
24 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And that’s an unintentional pun in the headline too in case you were wondering. But, these really are the times that we live in. Now UK residents, Cornwall residents in particular, won’t have to worry about who will look after the chickens if one were to take a holiday or go on ones “gap yah.”
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Renovations To Gauteng Premier’s House, Millions Squandered
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gauteng’s top brass are being flushed out again for misappropriation of taxpayers’ money. This time it’s totalling a little over R12 million since 2005 on lavish refurbishments and renovations to the official Bryanston residence of the Gauteng Premier.
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Cape Grace Hotel Hosts Hole And Kock Party
15 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Spotted at Cape Town International. Stunning! [thanks carryn]
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