The soccer fever seems to have spread through the populace at lightning speeds…or at least the speed of sound thanks to our local vuvuzelas.
It seems that even the workplace has been affected by the soccer spirit. Well, in the positive sense I mean!
There is one little element that we need to be careful about. That is of course the bane of World Cup traffic.
As we all know the BIG GAME…that is, South Africa vs. The country that is going to be crushed by our power (Mexico), will kickoff at 4:00pm.
That means of course that if you want to catch the big game that you will have to get off work early.
Remember if you are working in certain parts of Cape Towntraffic will be absolutely INSANE.
Take for instance my girlfriend who is going to have to get from Woodstock to Sea Point during one of the games. Dude, going through town for her will be nearly impossible. So she will have to take the back route to get home. Shoooo, I hope everyone can get home in time for the match!
The Uruguay vs. France game will commence at 8:30pm. So hopefully everyone will be where they need to be by that time. There will be a super colossal football fever in Cape Town, until very late. Remember when the games end, the parties begin! Take that into account or you may end up in a maelstrom of traffic madness.
If you are concerned about the World Cup traffic, best chat to your bosses and see if you can wangle a deal. Maybe try to come in early, so that you can leave at a better time!
Heck if you have cool bosses maybe they will even give you the day off
Football mania is sweeping the nation as the final countdown looms for the BIGkickoff.
The air is electric with anticipation and the multitudes of various tourists from all across the globe can be felt everywhere.
It’s fantastic to see so many people out wearing their football jerseys, even though it’s not “Football Friday”. I don’t have a football jersey myself, but I feel compelled to wear lots of yellow and green. GO Bafana!!!!
I’m ashamed to admit that up until recently I was one of those people who resisted the pull of the football mania. It is the commercial suck that I sought to thwart. It makes my hair stand on end when company after company use the World Cup as an advertising tool. Well, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. These companies will do it anyway, even if they come across as completely fake. Dude I’ve even seen some can company advertising their stuff with a dancing crowd all holding their cans with lil SA flags on them. Can you say CHEAP!
Luckily for me over sensitive advertisingfilter has backed down a little and has allowed me to open up my heart to the whole World Cup affair! The football mania has got me excited for the games themselves. All the openingceremony and concert stuff I’m not especially interested in. However I just can’t wait for the first whistle and the football assault. Boys and girls, these are the best football players on Earth….to have them all on SA soil, all at the same time is something truly special.
Hi there all you fun loving Capetonians out there!
If you live in close proximity to the V&A Waterfront chances are you would have seen some rather strange colossal poles and bars going up by the Gateway canal (which is accessed from the Coen Steytler entrance). Those my super friends are the structure for a massive Ferris Wheel called the Wheel of Excellence….and yeah after seeing a completed picture of the wheel I have to agree it’s a rather fitting name indeed.
Although I have been on every sort of amusement park ride you can imagine, I have as yet still not been on one of the most basic, but best of them all…the Ferris Wheel!
Maybe I just didn’t have the right girl in my life at the right time to enjoy the awesomness of the Big wheel to its fullest….and no that doesn’t mean getting up to “dodgy” things in the compartments
Rather, sharing the view with somebody special is much better than going with a whole bunch of unruly mates who are trying to look over the edge at the girls above and below.
Good news! I have just received a new shipment of ultra cool new Springleap.com designs to the Sea Point store. Obviously you won’t be surprised to hear that they look fabulous and that you will no doubt fall in love with them instantly.
Scope out our new May stock!
The first design new May stock to make its appearance is the very well received design called A very Important Date by Nicetomeetyou. This design, as you may remember, was the winning design from our Down the Rabbit Hole competition, which was all about creating a design that was based upon the Alice in Wonderlandvibe. There were a truck load of elite entries into this theme competition, but only one impressed enough to grasp the prize with a clear margin of votes and that was A very Important Date!
I’m absolutely stoked to have this design in-store and I have no doubts that it will be received by the retail shopping public as favourably as it has been received online.
