travel

Heather reporting from Capetown

Today...a completely different continent... Africa...more precisely...its south-tip... South Africa's Capetown...hometown of Heather from skinnylaminx...Heather and I met when Bloesem was still written in Dutch and she was practicing her Dutch by reading Bloesem and giving comments in Dutch...as you know, although two distinct languages, Afrikaans and Dutch are very much related...since then Heather and I have become close blog friends...I am very happy she is sharing her favorite Capetown finds with us...

"Just up the road from me is a charming little shop called Heartworks, run by Margaret Woermann. It’s a bright and colourful place, full of amazing things but very carefully put together so you can see it all.

Kim reporting from Cape Town

In South Africa, one will hear the catch phrase, "Local is lekker!" a lot. (Lekker, an afrikaans word meaning Good, Enjoyable) I (=Kim) have focused on two socially aware stores that have used locals to create typically South African products. In the last Cape Town report for Bloesem, Heather Moore of Skinny laminx showed us around the city centre, so I decided to venture a little further out of the city.