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Heads up!

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No big announcement, as you may have expected from the title of this post, merely this from the very same weekend a year ago.

That’s France’s Jeremy Toulalan and Uruguay’s Alvaro Pereira challenging for a ball which I comprehensively failed to get in shot. This was the second game of the tournament after the Bafana Bafana v Mexico game which we watched with a couple of hundred thousand others at the Waterfront. This one ended 0-0, meaning that I had watched a total of 3½ hours of football at the Cape Town Stadium without seeing a goal.

Fortunately, 39 minutes into the next game in Cape Town (a bitterly cold affair between Italy and Paraguay), Antolín Alcaraz scored for the South Americans and the duck was broken, only to return for the utterly dismal England v Algeria game a few days later.

Expect more quota photos loosely tied around a World Cup 2010 theme this month and every other June for ever and ever.

Cape Town Tourism Flickr Pic of the Day (2)

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Just a quickie to note that one of my photos from the ill-fated Ajax Cape Town versus Maritzburg United clash at the Cape Town Stadium earlier this month was published by Cape Town Tourism as their Flickr Pic of the Day.

This is the second time I’ve had this honour, the first being this effort (bigger here), the taking of which was immortalised in this blog post.

I’d forgotten just how much fun that evening was.

This is getting better and better and better…

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The infamous words of football commentator John Motson as England banged 5 goals past Germany back on 1st September 2001. A match we watched in the old and somewhat scruffy Brittania Inn in Headington, before going down the Cowley Road to celebrate. I think I put an Aresnal fan in a skip that night, if I remember rightly. All good fun and games though.

At least for me.

And Motty’s words were echoed this evening on the balcony of a Sea Point apartment as those assembled for birthday drinks watched the sun set over the South Atlantic.

It was rather spectacular, as these thinned versions of the (sadly) cellphone pics show. One other interesting feature was the prominent tower block which appears to be moving slowly, but steadily north as the sequence progresses. That might have been due to the champagne though (I’m assuming it had been drinking too).
Bigger versions of these are available in my pretentiously named Sunsets & Skyscapes set on flickr:

Photos of sunsets or images in which the sky makes up an important part of or is integral to the user’s overall visual experience.

Seriously, who writes this stuff…?

Wish I was there

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It’s just a more personal form of “wish you were here”…

Taken in L’Agulhas last week. If you’re willing to go bigger, you’ll see the lighthouse (as if you need proof: why would I ever lie to my loyal reader(s)?).
Don’t be fooled by the blue skies – there was a howling gale blowing and I could barely stand up to take this photo.  Still, it was much preferable to the miserable, grey Cape Town outside my window right now.