I've been cheating on Durban...with Cape Town

This weekend I was in Cape Town, and what a fantastic weekend it was!  The Mother City did not disappoint....she pulled out all the stops - sunshine, new restaurant to try out and quality time with all my bestieis - she was clearly in it to win it!

I was in CT to bake for a wedding - you can read about that here - but that was really just an excuse to go and see all my mates.  I won't get into the detail of the weekend, there is simply too much to share in one post.  What I will say though is that if you are in the CT area, you should definitely check out a restaurant called The Woodlands Eatery....it is amazing - great homely vibe and very tasty food

Here is my weekend in pictures....
Warning: these pics may cause feelings of extreme jealousy

Restaurant Review: Moyo

Tonight I went with my sister and some friends to Moyo at Ushaka Marine World.  I was hoping to be wowed by the amazing entertainment and awesome cuisine, instead I was left wanting.

We arrived and headed out to end of the pier where we planned to have a chilled cocktail - the setting was idyllic, the perfect summer's evening - flat sea, great sunset, no wind....but the drinks took 45 mins and they got the order wrong!

Determined not to let that ruin the rest of our evening, we put that out of our minds and headed down to the main restaurant for dinner.  My goodness but it was hot inside!  So hot that the heat was all that you could think about....it felt like we had stumbled into an actual inferno, sweat dripping from our bodies!  (Seriously, have these guys never heard of aircon - even a fan would have been nice!)

Our waiter did do his best to accommodate us, and helped us to move the table as close to the window as he could get it....thank God for that!

Admittedly, the food was pretty good (I had a steak with pepper sauce), and the face painting and dancing were a nice touch.  It is just a pity that the service was so rushed and the restaurant was so hot!

Rating:  6/10.
Comment:  Far below par for a franchise like Moyo that's for sure!

The movers have arrived!

It's official, I have completed the move to Durbs - this week Meg and I moved all our things up from PMB and met the delivery truck with all our stuff from Cape Town.  

We are now living in the suburbs of the greater Glenwood area.  Our flat is directly above a bakery...which is awesome when you run out of bread or milk on the weekend, but not so awesome when you wake up to go for a run during the week and all you can smell is sweet pasty!

The flat itself is great - big and spacious - typical old Durban flat that has been refurbished....the place is a bit of a tip now, but I promise to post some pics once I we have properly unpacked

House warming prezzie from Hales

The movers van...before the unpacking started...we had 

no idea what was to follow - we have far to much stuff!

All the boxes after the unpacking had begun

First thing we did was put the wine in the fridge...priorities are important!

I'm not one for resolutions but...

Happy New Year everybody, I hope you all had a festive evening last night and that everyone is not feeling to bad this morning :)

New year was rather a chilled affair for me this year - I spent it in Kokstad on a friend of mine's farm....such a beautiful place.   A couple of us drove up to the farm on the 30th and we had a chilled weekend with delicious food and lots of wine....my kind of weekend!  On new years eve we had a braai and even bust out some moves on the dance floor (read: lounge floor) which were blaring from the surround sound system (read: ipod docking station)...such a rad night!

But after new years eve, comes new years day, and with new years day come new years resolutions....and if I am honest, I have never been very good at either setting or sticking to these rules!

So, instead of trying to dictate the direction of my year in the hungover state that is the essence of new years morning, this year I did some forward thinking and this is what I have come up with...

Images from We Heart It

Quite nice hey?  The plan is to remember these little gems and try to make good on them during the year ahead....there are only five little thoughts, that's only one hand - it can't be that difficult can it?  Maybe we will have to have a "halfway-through-the-year-check-in" in about July or so....just to get a feel for how it's going.