I love getting out into our little Cape Town towns for our birthdays, to do something special so it’s not just another moment past by but an intentional time. With us all pulling in different directions, it is hard to get us all in the same place at the same time. So I booked a morning together to go visit an old Cape Town town, called Kalk Bay (which is Dutch for Lime Bay). It’s the sweetest town, where the houses are built on the side of mountain overlooking the sea and small harbour. It’s not fancy at all but more eclectic… completely artistic. Art elements everywhere your eye lands. From handpainted patterns on the floor of every shop, creatively tiled walls and mandala patterns on pillars. It’s a visual feast. It’s a tiny town and you can easily walk from one end of the town to the other with tiny hickledy pickledy alleyways, jammed with second hand shops, galleries, artisan shops and restaurants… and you can still buy fresh fish off the harbour wall from the local fishermen.
The three of us had such a beautiful day together. Corkzi girl was out of town riding SA Champs, we missed her terribly. Her riding and racing is taking her across the country at the moment and exciting things are happening for her in this space.
