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Chillin' down an Orange River

Breaking away from all things trends and innovation related, we took a trip down South Africa's largest river, the Orange.
We found our old photoblog and shocked it by posting a few snaps.

Check them out here...

Dockside winter 1 & 2

We headed down to the V&A Waterfront early Sunday for some Java and snaps. Between cold fronts we managed to grab Dockside Winter 1 and 2.

Cherryflava Pics

Design Indaba Expo 2007

The most public event of the Indaba every year is the Expo. This year, international retail buyers were invited to do some scouting at the event, which will hopefully see things like the XYZ's condom applicator and Heath Nash lamps land up in your local Walmart.

Check out our pics from the show floor here.

Cape Town's Extreme Hotel

We had to satisfy our curiosity...sparked way back last year when we first heard about the Extreme Hotel.

Was it Daddy Long Legs on a street luge - or more like the Fox Hotel with a Table Mountain backdrop.

You decide, over at Cherryflava Pics...here.

Newlands cricket: South Africa vs India

Headed off, camera-in-hand to yesterday's ODI SA vs India.

Pictures made it through the first innings - then the sun and beer took over.

Pics of cricket game in nice stadium here.

Daddy Long Legs: Part 4 & 5

Last two sets of shots from our visit to Cape Town's DDL hotel in Long Street.

Part 5 features our favourite room in the place - The Emergency Room. Stylishly sick.

See:

Daddy Long Legs: Part 4
Daddy Long Legs: Part 5

Daddy Long Legs: Part 3

Part 3/5 of our photoventure to the Daddy Long Legs boutique hotel.

View Part 3 here.

Daddy Long Legs: Part 1 & 2

We have written about Cape Town's own world-famous funk hotel in Long Street before.

It was therefore high time that we got our As into G and headed down there to take some of our own shots of the place.
On Tuesday the hotel, along with top-posh Cape Town diner, Ginja - won an award from local House and Leisure magazine as being the best tourist options in SA.

If you're not aware of what an art hotel is - briefly, its a new global trend in hotel branding where rooms are individually decorated and give personality. A good global example is the Fox Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Daddy Long Legs is just over a year old and is owned by two chartered accountants, Jody Aufrichtig and Nick Ferguson who are both still in their 30's.
Together, they've slowly been buying up CBD properties and also own the newly launched Old Biscuit Factory in Woodstock.

Clearly they see major potential in the city and are injecting a new level of creativity into the projects they take on.

More about the owners here.

First 2/5 series of pictures:

Daddy Long Legs: Part 1 - Cherryflava Pics
Daddy Long Legs: Part 2 - Cherryflava Pics

Previously:
Funk hotels - Cherryflava
Cape Town's own art hotel - Cherryflava

Airshow

An Aerospace and defence expo is a rather strange concept.
Arms 'brands' from around the world display their wares to the general public, dish out brochures detailing product specs and showoff their ranges in an attempt to lure you to purchase a tank or a submarine.

If you're planning to start a war its handy, but lost a bit on us.

Check out our outdoor pics from the show.

Paternoster: West coast cooler

Took a short trip up the west coast to keep us sane - some of the pictures after the jump.

Paternoster: West coast cooler - Cherryflava pics