Archive for 'South Africa'
Johannesburg’s Rosebank Hotel
Are you heading to South Africa and worried that you won’t be able to enjoy the very best of metrosexual hospitality. Check out the Rosebank Hotel, probably the only hotel I’ve ever been to which is much more impressive in person than on its website. It is just two blocks away from the Rosebank Mall and, for all you cyber-enthusiasts, from the offices of the African Commons Project.
The lobby has lots of smiling faces and the kind of lighting that makes everyone look pretty:
Plus there’s this underwater garden lounge type thing that looks like the perfect place to drink too many gin and tonics:
Also appropriate for confined debauchery are the cocktail pods:
The rooms have all the added touches: slippers by the bed, flower petals on the pillows, and, get this, mirrored-glass that looks out on the rest of the room from the shower:
All that was missing was the accompanying super model. Well, you don’t get everything.
Most impressive of all, though, was the restaurant and its mammoth breakfast spread:
The rest of my photos are on Flickr.
Today the trip starts – let’s tour the country
It’s Sunday morning and we’re at the Rosebank Hotel. It has recently been redone in it’s entirety. What a pleasure.
So basically the next ten or so days I will be on a whirlwind nationwide tour around SA!
I am blogging on various platforms and have decided to try my best to split up the […]
Blogging Tour South Africa Kick Off
I am invited by the International Marketing Council of South Africa to see some of their best technology, and to get a sense of the country. All expenses are paid but I will write what I want about this trip. Africa is not the first place that comes in mind when we think about broadband connection and technology, so I thought that it could be good to go and check out what is going on there. I arrived two days ago in Johannesburg at the Rosebank Hotel and I met the other bloggers last night during an instructive dinner. Check out the photos by clicking on the gallery button, all names will be written later when I confirm the right spelling.
During the week, we will visit the deepest mine in the world (3.7 km underground!), and the largest diamond mining ship in a government secured area, this is for sure backed by some serious technology! We will get a demo of the South African electric car and I will discover the latest Web apps that are coming up here.
south africa: day 1: arrival in johannesburg
Backstory, please
Does anyone know what the Khalil Gibran quote was doing on this orange jumpsuit, spotted at Click’s In Rosebank?
This march in London I support – the right to vote
Last year I wrote a very heated and controversial post about an anti-crime march that was held in London. I was a bit confused about the action and that people abroad should come home and fight for their country.
This year on December 6th 2008 South Africans living in London will gather to march for […]
The Brendan JACKast hits the waves
I have to admit that I am a massive fan of Brendan Jack’s incredibly dry humour and great approach to everything.
So I would like to introduce my readers to the Brendan JACKast. The guy is hilarious and has some great guests to boot. This episode features [briefly] Politics, expats, comedy, nuclear submarines and a […]
