To all our dear friends, hello from Barry and Mina at Jambo Guest House.
This past spring, in our own garden, our Clivias, the Wisteria over the front fence, the Port Wine Magnolia with its tantalizing scent and the Petrea over the front gable, all burst forth in bloom to herald the arrival of spring and to cheer us up just when we needed it most. In May Barry had a double knee replacement operation and now has two new knees. Although it is supposed to take a year to recover, Barry is up and (almost) running already and you would probably not notice that he has new knees.
Needless to say, we didn’t take a holiday this year but instead, we took short breaks and re-discovered our own beautiful part of the World. The weather was great even though it was winter, but sadly we do need the rain.
Due to the dry winters, some of you may have heard that Cape Town is experiencing a severe water shortage and it has become staple dinner-table and radio talk show conversation. At Jambo, Barry has installed rainwater collection tanks, water filters and booster pumps and reduced flow rates so we don’t anticipate any further water shortage problems at the guest house.
As if we didn’t already know and it is what we have always known - Cape Town has for the 5th time been voted the best city in the World by the readers of The Telegraph in Britain. According to the 90 000 readers who voted in the annual Telegraph Travel Awards, Cape Town was the number one city beating cities like Vancouver and Tokyo.
According to the newspaper's website, Cape Town gained the title for its coastal location, overshadowed by Table Mountain, great wine and Boulders Beach where African penguins roam freely.
Also, only last month, Cape Town was of the 19 cities which joined a list of 180 which have been recognised for their contributions to the development of art and design.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE, the famous explorer, who spent the first 12 years of his life growing up near Cape Town says that it is the most beautiful country in the world and all our guests agree.
Jambo is truly very centrally situated, close to many of Cape Town’s "must see" sights and beaches.
According to the UK Post Office Travel Money’s annual Long-Haul Holiday Report, the city of Cape Town has topped the list of best value for your money destinations. Conducted by comparing the cost of 10 tourist items — including coffee, cocktails and dinner — in 34 cities and resorts around the world, Cape Town came out on top.
South Africa was also recently awarded the Star All-Round Destination accolade in the Travel Bulletin Star Awards, the UK’s most prestigious awards program, held at the Langham Hotel in London.
The awards were voted for by UK travel agents.
The country was also recognised in several categories of the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Travel Awards 2017, held earlier this year in London. Readers were asked to rate their favourite countries, cities, islands, hotels, spas, airlines and tour operators.
It is now easier than ever to get here with Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Edelweiss and Eurowings adding or increasing frequency of flights to Cape Town. Eurowings, a low-cost carrier that is part of the Lufthansa Group, launched flights between Cologne and Cape Town in November this year.
So, if a holiday in our ‘Mother City’ may not have been on the cards, perhaps you should think again: -
There is a very favourable exchange rate, so your Pounds, Dollars and Euros will go very far.
We have some of the best wines in the world and have been producing them since 1659 which is when the first grapes were pressed in Constantia and today we are listed 9th in the World in terms of production. There are more than 200 wineries within half an hour drive from Jambo Guest House. If you are driving yourselves we will show you a route for a whole day’s tour visiting our favourite wineries in Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek. Alternatively, we can book you on a tour with experienced guides.
Surfers can find some of the best waves to ride from the monster break at” Dungeons” near Hout Bay, which can be 15 metres high (though only in winter) to a gentle wave in Muizenberg where beginners can learn to surf.
Our guests can enjoy anything from snorkelling with hundreds of Cape Fur Seals off Duiker
Island to sea kayaking near the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach. In the winter months, you can sea kayak with Southern Right Whales in Hermanus which is a nice days outing.
Coffee snobs - visit Truth Coffee in town, voted the best by the UK’s Daily Telegraph for the second year running. We prefer Giovanni’s just down the road!
For steak lovers, we have the best meat on the planet and many superb restaurants in which to enjoy it, from downtown eateries with panoramic views of the city and Table Mountain to the two oceans at Cape Point with views over both Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Cape Town is famous for having fresh fish and seafood at our restaurants and of course, we have many superb restaurants close by. We will recommend some of the best ones and help you with directions.
The Waterfront has been busy this year hosting not one but two ocean races. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, a sailing race around the world in 8 legs, with trained amateur crew members, made a stopover here in Cape Town. The organisers own a fleet of identical yachts, the Clipper 70, and provide qualified skippers to lead each team. The crew can either sign up for the whole race, or one or more legs. The race was conceived in 1995 by Sir Robin Knox Johnson who founded Clipper Ventures plc as a company to run the race. The race ran every two years between 1996 and 2002, and then skipped a year, with subsequent races beginning in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2017
The Clipper Race uses lighter, faster boats and the route follows the prevailing currents and winds. The current fleet of yachts is 12 Clipper 70 yachts first used in the 2013-14 race. The race has used two other previous classes of yacht comprising 8 Clipper 60s and 10 Clipper 68s. The inaugural race did not feature sponsor's branding. In 2000, The Times newspaper came on board as title sponsor with some yachts being sponsored by international cities. The last race, held in 2015-16 had yachts sponsored by international cities as well as yachts sponsored by varying organisations.
After that, we had a stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race, the 13th edition which started in Alicante, Spain and will finish in the Netherlands.
Interestingly this year, because of the water shortage in Cape Town, Blue Water, a Swedish water purification company teamed up with CONSOL Glass and provided 15000 litres of drinking water in glass bottles instead of single-use plastic bottles thus saving our precious water and also not polluting the oceans with plastic. The world's premier offshore race is an exceptional test of sailing prowess and human endeavour, which started over 37 years ago as the Whitbread Round the World Race. The Volvo Ocean Race crews experience life at the extreme as they race day and night for more than 20 days at a time….
We have written in previous years about the World land speed record - the SSC Bloodhound and the attempt to reach 1000mph. This year there were successful test runs at 200mph at Newquay airport in Cornwall, the UK. During October next year, the Bloodhound will be here in South Africa. The plan is to test run at 500mph on the specially created track at Haksteen Pan in the Northern Cape. This will be the first chance to use the car’s desert wheels and braking parachutes and gain an insight into the aerodynamic performance and handling… Will we see you there?
On the art scene, the big news here is the opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in the Waterfront, just a 15-minute walk from Jambo. It is situated in converted grain silos, built in 1921 and consisting of 42 giant concrete tubes which originally stored tons of grain before being shipped around the world.
Some of the concrete tubes have been carved away to reveal an oval atrium surrounded by concrete shafts overhead, while the entire space is illuminated by natural light streaming through a glass ceiling. Inside the bisected tubes, cylindrical lifts have been installed to transport visitors to the upper floors. From the outside, large bulging pillowed windows — resembling diamond-shaped sails — are the building’s most noticeable feature, offering sweeping views of the city below for clients of the Silo Hotel.
When it is completed the Zeitz MOCAA will have 80 galleries spread over nine floors of which 65,000 square feet will be dedicated exhibition space. Through an entire floor dedicated to education, the museum hopes to develop a new art-loving, museum-going audience.
It is a great time to visit SA again.
§ A pound is worth R16.72 today,
§ A Euro is worth R14.80 today,
§ A US Dollar is worth R12.45 today,
§ and that means a South African trip is better value for money than ever before.
In closing, we hope you had a wonderful festive season and we wish you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2018.
This past spring, in our own garden, our Clivias, the Wisteria over the front fence, the Port Wine Magnolia with its tantalizing scent and the Petrea over the front gable, all burst forth in bloom to herald the arrival of spring and to cheer us up just when we needed it most. In May Barry had a double knee replacement operation and now has two new knees. Although it is supposed to take a year to recover, Barry is up and (almost) running already and you would probably not notice that he has new knees.
Needless to say, we didn’t take a holiday this year but instead, we took short breaks and re-discovered our own beautiful part of the World. The weather was great even though it was winter, but sadly we do need the rain.
Due to the dry winters, some of you may have heard that Cape Town is experiencing a severe water shortage and it has become staple dinner-table and radio talk show conversation. At Jambo, Barry has installed rainwater collection tanks, water filters and booster pumps and reduced flow rates so we don’t anticipate any further water shortage problems at the guest house.
As if we didn’t already know and it is what we have always known - Cape Town has for the 5th time been voted the best city in the World by the readers of The Telegraph in Britain. According to the 90 000 readers who voted in the annual Telegraph Travel Awards, Cape Town was the number one city beating cities like Vancouver and Tokyo.
According to the newspaper's website, Cape Town gained the title for its coastal location, overshadowed by Table Mountain, great wine and Boulders Beach where African penguins roam freely.
Also, only last month, Cape Town was of the 19 cities which joined a list of 180 which have been recognised for their contributions to the development of art and design.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE, the famous explorer, who spent the first 12 years of his life growing up near Cape Town says that it is the most beautiful country in the world and all our guests agree.
Jambo is truly very centrally situated, close to many of Cape Town’s "must see" sights and beaches.
According to the UK Post Office Travel Money’s annual Long-Haul Holiday Report, the city of Cape Town has topped the list of best value for your money destinations. Conducted by comparing the cost of 10 tourist items — including coffee, cocktails and dinner — in 34 cities and resorts around the world, Cape Town came out on top.
South Africa was also recently awarded the Star All-Round Destination accolade in the Travel Bulletin Star Awards, the UK’s most prestigious awards program, held at the Langham Hotel in London.
The awards were voted for by UK travel agents.
The country was also recognised in several categories of the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Travel Awards 2017, held earlier this year in London. Readers were asked to rate their favourite countries, cities, islands, hotels, spas, airlines and tour operators.
It is now easier than ever to get here with Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Edelweiss and Eurowings adding or increasing frequency of flights to Cape Town. Eurowings, a low-cost carrier that is part of the Lufthansa Group, launched flights between Cologne and Cape Town in November this year.
So, if a holiday in our ‘Mother City’ may not have been on the cards, perhaps you should think again: -
There is a very favourable exchange rate, so your Pounds, Dollars and Euros will go very far.
We have some of the best wines in the world and have been producing them since 1659 which is when the first grapes were pressed in Constantia and today we are listed 9th in the World in terms of production. There are more than 200 wineries within half an hour drive from Jambo Guest House. If you are driving yourselves we will show you a route for a whole day’s tour visiting our favourite wineries in Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek. Alternatively, we can book you on a tour with experienced guides.
Surfers can find some of the best waves to ride from the monster break at” Dungeons” near Hout Bay, which can be 15 metres high (though only in winter) to a gentle wave in Muizenberg where beginners can learn to surf.
Our guests can enjoy anything from snorkelling with hundreds of Cape Fur Seals off Duiker
Island to sea kayaking near the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach. In the winter months, you can sea kayak with Southern Right Whales in Hermanus which is a nice days outing.
Coffee snobs - visit Truth Coffee in town, voted the best by the UK’s Daily Telegraph for the second year running. We prefer Giovanni’s just down the road!
For steak lovers, we have the best meat on the planet and many superb restaurants in which to enjoy it, from downtown eateries with panoramic views of the city and Table Mountain to the two oceans at Cape Point with views over both Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Cape Town is famous for having fresh fish and seafood at our restaurants and of course, we have many superb restaurants close by. We will recommend some of the best ones and help you with directions.
The Waterfront has been busy this year hosting not one but two ocean races. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, a sailing race around the world in 8 legs, with trained amateur crew members, made a stopover here in Cape Town. The organisers own a fleet of identical yachts, the Clipper 70, and provide qualified skippers to lead each team. The crew can either sign up for the whole race, or one or more legs. The race was conceived in 1995 by Sir Robin Knox Johnson who founded Clipper Ventures plc as a company to run the race. The race ran every two years between 1996 and 2002, and then skipped a year, with subsequent races beginning in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2017
The Clipper Race uses lighter, faster boats and the route follows the prevailing currents and winds. The current fleet of yachts is 12 Clipper 70 yachts first used in the 2013-14 race. The race has used two other previous classes of yacht comprising 8 Clipper 60s and 10 Clipper 68s. The inaugural race did not feature sponsor's branding. In 2000, The Times newspaper came on board as title sponsor with some yachts being sponsored by international cities. The last race, held in 2015-16 had yachts sponsored by international cities as well as yachts sponsored by varying organisations.
After that, we had a stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race, the 13th edition which started in Alicante, Spain and will finish in the Netherlands.
Interestingly this year, because of the water shortage in Cape Town, Blue Water, a Swedish water purification company teamed up with CONSOL Glass and provided 15000 litres of drinking water in glass bottles instead of single-use plastic bottles thus saving our precious water and also not polluting the oceans with plastic. The world's premier offshore race is an exceptional test of sailing prowess and human endeavour, which started over 37 years ago as the Whitbread Round the World Race. The Volvo Ocean Race crews experience life at the extreme as they race day and night for more than 20 days at a time….
We have written in previous years about the World land speed record - the SSC Bloodhound and the attempt to reach 1000mph. This year there were successful test runs at 200mph at Newquay airport in Cornwall, the UK. During October next year, the Bloodhound will be here in South Africa. The plan is to test run at 500mph on the specially created track at Haksteen Pan in the Northern Cape. This will be the first chance to use the car’s desert wheels and braking parachutes and gain an insight into the aerodynamic performance and handling… Will we see you there?
On the art scene, the big news here is the opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in the Waterfront, just a 15-minute walk from Jambo. It is situated in converted grain silos, built in 1921 and consisting of 42 giant concrete tubes which originally stored tons of grain before being shipped around the world.
Some of the concrete tubes have been carved away to reveal an oval atrium surrounded by concrete shafts overhead, while the entire space is illuminated by natural light streaming through a glass ceiling. Inside the bisected tubes, cylindrical lifts have been installed to transport visitors to the upper floors. From the outside, large bulging pillowed windows — resembling diamond-shaped sails — are the building’s most noticeable feature, offering sweeping views of the city below for clients of the Silo Hotel.
When it is completed the Zeitz MOCAA will have 80 galleries spread over nine floors of which 65,000 square feet will be dedicated exhibition space. Through an entire floor dedicated to education, the museum hopes to develop a new art-loving, museum-going audience.
It is a great time to visit SA again.
§ A pound is worth R16.72 today,
§ A Euro is worth R14.80 today,
§ A US Dollar is worth R12.45 today,
§ and that means a South African trip is better value for money than ever before.
In closing, we hope you had a wonderful festive season and we wish you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2018.
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