Rugby |

Here’s some of what we got up to this weekend:

We saw a lot of the Moses Mahbida Stadium in Durban. I shmaak that stadium. I’m not really into architecture, but I can appreciate the beauty of one of Africa’s most iconic football stadiums. If one good thing came from The World Cup in 2010, it was Moses Mahbida:

We even took the sky cab to the top of it. My first time ever, and another reason I love my husband so much: he is always willing to entertain my inner child and curiousity… probably because his is pretty much the same.

Look at us all posey posey at the top…

And check that view!

It’s amazing how small Kings Park looks from the top of Moses Mahbida too. But more of Kings Park later…

We then headed off to lunch at a restaurant I’ve been dying to try for aaaaages: Neil Roarke’s Craft Trattoria in Durban North. I drank this gorgeous watermelon cosmopolitan:

and put this mussel, clam and prawn spaghetti cartoccio down my gullet:

Oh you knows it… delish. The entire place was everything I imagined. Love love love the decor and all the quirky little personal touches. You MUST go see for yourself.

You can watch peeps working in the kitchen through the glass wall… I like a lot. No judgement going on in there.

The we headed off for some couch time at my cousin’s Claire’s flat and I simply had to take a photograph her throws. LOVE. Claire, being a graphic designer and all, has the most beautiful, funky, quirky flat in the world. Such a happy place. Could crawl up on this couch and stay forever.

See?

After our nap, we headed off to the Park of Kings for the opening game of the season between The Sharks (the best team in THE WORLD) and The Stormers (our biggest rivals in my opinion… I love playing them, especially at Kings Park and especially when we beat them. Which we did, of course). There was such an awesome vibe at the game, and the car parks were famously filled with people braaing and celebrating… just one of my favourite places in the world. The stadium looked so pretty in the setting sun:

Andrew drank lots of jugs of beer and I ate biltong. Cannot, for the life of me, understand why the only choice of alcoholic drink for women at the stadium is Brutal Fruit. Yuk. as far as I’m concerned, the only people who should be drinking Brutal Fruit are underage schoolgirls. People over the age of eighteen DO NOT drink alcopops. Come on SAB!

After the rugger we headed off to a very average meal on Florida Road at a Place Which Shall Not Be Named, but which used to be one of the best steakhouses and most popular joints in Durban for dinner. Now… just very disappointing.

On Sunday morning, Andrew slept off his seven jugs of beer. I eventually got him out of bed at 10, itching to go to the beach. Somehow we ended up here instead:

Yep. Sibaya Casino. Saddest place to be on a Sunday morning at 11am, and believe me there were a lot of people there. Being sad. Anywho, we cashed our vouchers and left asap, before finally getting to Umhlodti Beach.

There we met Andrew’s dad and his girlfriend for an aaaaamazing seafood lunch at Bel Punto before they headed off back to the Isle of Man. Bliss, heaven and sunshine. I’m sure you can see why it is one of our favourite restaurants in Durban: