Photo Update

Merchant of Venice

I know I wrote about being at the premiere some time ago, but I found this photo, so thought I’d put it on the blog. This very professional looking photo (ha ha) was taken by Chris Lategan, he’s very good with a lens.

Table Mountain

It’s strange how when you see something every day of your life, it just becomes part of the background, you don’t really notice it anymore. How many of you back home actually stop and look at Table mountain every now and then? I do the same thing with the tower of London and Tower Bridge, I see them every day of my life as they’re basically a stones throw away (at least for someone with a strong arm). People come from all over the world to see the tower of London and I work right next to it…every day.

The same applies to table mountain, one of the worlds biggest tourist attractions, we live right there, yet we take no notice of it. I guess this kind of thing happens everywhere, I know French people who hate the Eiffel Tower, one girl in specific was so stereotypically (what I believe to be the stereotype) French it was scary. Although friendly towards me, she came across as being extremely arrogant and very disapproving of tourists. In a female French accent now: “Ze Eiffel Toweh? Ah, it is hideous! All ze tourists wis zer cameraa’s and ze click click?! And ze blinky lights on ze top of ze tower? O, so ugly”.

I felt like pointing out that the Eiffel tower brings tons of money into their country and that she was in fact a foreigner in this country, but decided against it to avoid a possible face-slapping.

So bottom line, every now and then stop and look at what we have, it really is amazing.