New haircut @ Roots

My long time friend Gail Roodt is now the owner of Roots Hair Salon. Roots at Crossways, Bluff, Southlands Sun "Best Hair Salon 2014" and Mc Naught and Co "Best Legal Services Provider 2014" teamed up to give me a hair make-over, Thanks Tanya and Gail for the great new trendy style. Be sure to book your next appointment with Gail on 082-825 4778. They're a great Bluff team!

Durban video

Here's an excellent YouTube video on National Geograpic about our city.. the first settlers and discoverers, to modern day cultural mix.

Durban Beachfront 

Watch and come swim with the sharks..

Giraffe is the game parks a 45 min drive from Durban

Rhino near Durban - under threat

Durban City Hall - an almost exact replica of the Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland

Taste of Durban Festival

Enjoying a pint of our local Castle Milk Stout and a Margarita at the Taste of Durban Festival yesterday. Yum!

Dave, Lee and Llew tasting cocktails at the Taste of Durban Festival this weekend

Our own SA Breweries Castle Milk Stout, a beer my dad used to drink

And happening in South Korea

Finding new things to do in South Korea, my daughter Kate and her friends watch baseball.

At a baseball game watching the local Busan team

Kate-Lynn with her class

Another week.. great photos

Our weekend started off well with a fly-in to the Aloe Wildlife Estate near Pietermaritzburg this morning and yummy breakfast there for all.

The beautiful bridge seen from Ginwali Beach in South Korea where my daughter and her friends spend a lot of their time.

It's winter and dry everywhere but the vineyard makes a perfect backdrop for this stunning pic of my son Mark and his girlfriend Lisa.

Our nephew Josh, who is in his own right an amazing musician, needed some accommodation for his mates who were coming to Durban for a gig, so we were delighted to have musician and composer Glen Hartmann and Kelly Mole (sister of the successful local Matthew Mole) come stay with us.

Glen's beautiful music vid of his song "Home, I saw" has just been released on iTunes and can be viewed from this link here. Like Glen on Facebook here.

Glen, Dave and Kelly

Our favourite restauranteur Jason - enjoying a shooter with us

Eating out at TapHouse in Durban North - excellent eisbein

The week

Kate-Lynn's crew in Busan, South Korea, just won a silver medal in their Whale Boat Race. Awesome team, well done.

Kate is the one holding the oar up of course

Great race to win the Silver Medal 

and on the other side of the world...

It was also Mark's last few days in warm Durban before heading back to the freezing and wet Cape winter. Saturday we had a family lunch to say goodbye and today I took him to the airport for the flight home to Stellenbosch where he is doing his Masters in Engineering.

Granny (my mom), Mark and his mom

Mark and I at King Shaka posing for a selfie