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Our guests- Batterman's Family. Life in Noordhoek.

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Our guests are the Butterman family. Many our acquaintances are starting to move to Cape Town. So our friends Dirk and Anna Butterman bought themselves an apartment in the city center, where they decided to spend several months a year. And of course we met. Radu and I picked them up and brought them to visit the Rada in Noordhoek. Dirk was one of the sponsors of our biennale in Odessa, he worked for the company GPK Ukraine. Thanks to him, we were able to organize the work of artists and an exhibition in Hamburg. And of course, after lunch, we showed them our most important  and Beautiful attraction - our beach. Наши гости- семейство Баттерман. Многие знакомые начинают переселяться в Кейптаун.   Так и наши друзья Дирк и Анна Баттерман приобрели себе апартаменты в центре города, где они решили проводить несколько месяцев в году. И конечно же мы встретились. Мы с Раду заехали за ними и привезли их в гости к Раде. Дирк был одним из спонсоров наших биеннале в Одессе, он работал на ...

Beautiful life in Noordhoek, Cape Town.

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Noordhoek - life in the village! To watch-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptThXcxqYk0 Surrounded by the Silver Mind mountains, the villa gives us a real pleasure every day, like stunning sunsets, fogs and showers. In order to immerse yourself in the beauty of the surrounding nature, you don't even need to go far from home. The joy of communicating with growing up kids is real happiness. The happiness that they need you and the understanding that soon they will grow up and all this will end. So we enjoy every day of the happiness that has fallen on us. There are a lot of people in Noordhoek who keep horses and equestrian sport is very fashionable here. Children are put on a horse from a very young age. I am very sorry that I am not close to horses and I am frankly afraid of them. But I am happy to watch the success of Benjamin, who was the first to go to class. This day ends at the most beautiful beach in the world - Noordhoek! Нордок- жизнь в деревне! Окруженная горами Сильв...

Kalk Bay. Life in Cape Town.

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Kalk Bay Today I will introduce you to another beautiful and very creative town in the vicinity of Cape Town - it is called Kalk Bay. Kalk Bay (Afrikaans: Kalkbaai) is a fishing village on the coast of Falls Bay. It is located between the ocean and steep mountain peaks supported by the cliffs of Table Mountain. The literal translation from Dutch / Afrikaans of the name "Kalkbaai" - "Lime Bay". This name comes from the huge deposits of mussel shells found here. The first settlers burned them to get building lime. Limekilns for frying mussel shells are still on the west coast. The railway from Cape Town's CBD to Simons Town runs through Calk Bay, and in some places, the line is just meters from the water's edge. The foundation stone of the harbour was laid in 1913. There are several famous caves in this area (with names such as Boomslang Cave, named after the snake, Ronan's Well based on the novel by Walter Scott's St Ronan's Spring and Free Drink ...