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January 2018

Happy New Year!
2018 kicks off with further water restrictions for Cape Town with Day Zero in May getting every closer when the drinking-water dams run dry and before the new emergency desalination plants kick in… other than that, the weather is beautifully cool, the mountain flowers are still in bloom and there’s live music everywhere on the Peninsula! 

Jan: Newly opened restaurant – Jakes on the Common
New Year’s: Eat out at one of our local restaurants listed here or enjoy live music at Cafe Roux
1 Jan: Deep South Blues Band at The Red Herring
5 Jan: Yoga: The Moon Sequence & Pranamaya in Noordhoek
8 Jan: Have your say on new water restrictions with City of Cape Town
13-14 Jan: Yoga & Intuitive Painting in Kommetjie
28 Jan: Learn to photograph Noordhoek

Weekends: Music evenings at Noordhoek’s Cafe Roux
Weekly on Tues: Gordon aka ‘Elvis’ at The Red Herring 7pm – 9pm
Weekly on Wed: Farm Village Market on Wed 4pm – 8pm
Weekly on Thurs: Cape Point Vineyards Market  5pm – 7pm (includes the Young Entrepreneurs Pocket Money Market)

What’s On all around Cape Town – theatre, music and more
Secret Sunrise events around Cape Town

This month’s weather in Noordhoek or today’s statistics
This month’s tides in Noordhoek

 

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December 2017

Holiday season is here – and here are some fun things happening in and around Noordhoek… a lot of Christmas carol singing and eating by the looks of it! 

Dec: Newly opened restaurant – Jakes on the Common
2 Dec: Noordhoek Christmas Market
7 Dec: Christmas carols at Noordhoek Farm Village
14 Dec: Christmas carols at Cape Point Vineyards
16-20 Dec: Eatwell Gallery summer art exhibition
17 Dec: Christmas show dressage on Noordhoek Common
17 Dec: Christmas carols on Noordhoek Common – 6:30pm
27 Dec: Yoga dox practices at YogaWithin
29 Dec: Yoga dox practices at YogaWithin

Weekends: Music evenings at Noordhoek’s Cafe Roux
Weekly: Farm Village Market on Wed 4pm – 8pm
Weekly: Cape Point Vineyards Market on Thurs 5pm – 7pm (includes the Young Entrepreneurs Pocket Money Market)

What’s On all around Cape Town – theatre, music and more
Secret Sunrise events around Cape Town

This month’s weather in Noordhoek or today’s statistics
This month’s tides in Noordhoek

Note: Roadworks on Chapman’s Peak Drive through October – December – status update here or on Twitter @ChapmansPeakSA, Facebook or 021 791 8222.

Other things on around & about, coming up . . .

 

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October 2017

It looks like it’s going to a cool and damp Spring this October so hopefully we’ll get some more water in our dams and strengthen up our plants with their new shoots before the Southeaster arrives!

7 Oct: Annual Penguin Festival at Boulders Beach, Simonstown
21-22 Oct: Noordhoek Open Gardens weekend from 10am – 4pm
21-28 Oct: Yoga 7-day intensive with Shimon Ben Avi at Yogawithin 

Weekends: Music evenings at Noordhoek’s Cafe Roux
Weekly: Farm Village Market on Wed 4pm – 8pm
Weekly: Cape Point Vineyards Market on Thurs 5pm – 7pm

What’s On all around Cape Town – theatre, music and more
Secret Sunrise events around Cape Town

This month’s weather in Noordhoek or today’s statistics
This month’s tides in Noordhoek

Note: Roadworks on Chapman’s Peak Drive through October – December – status update here or on Twitter @ChapmansPeakSA, Facebook or 021 791 8222.

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September 2017

It’s SPRING – well the trees think so anyway.! We’re all set for our first sea swim of the season this weekend and we hope you’ll take the plunge too while enjoying what’s happening around Noordhoek this month…

September is FLOWER season & National Tourism Month
1 Sept: Spring Day
1 Sept: Spring Day chanting ritual at Yogawithin
3 Sept: Fish Hoek Beach annual Spring Splash – celebrating 100 years!
3 Sept: Satori Camel Run – 10 years of running 10 miles
9 – 10 Sept: Showjumping
16 – 17 Sept: Equitation
18 – 22 Sept: SA National Parks Week – free access to parks
24: Heritage Day (National Braai Day) – public holiday
24 Sept: Potje Competition at Noordhoek Farm Village 10am-3pm
Spring shopping on Heritage weekend in Shayne’s Shed
Hiking on Heritage Day – list of great hikes around the Peninsula

Weekends: Music evenings at Noordhoek’s Cafe Roux
Weekly: Farm Village Market on Wed 4pm – 8pm
Weekly: Cape Point Vineyards Market on Thurs 5pm – 7pm

What’s On all around Cape Town – theatre, music and more
Secret Sunrise events around Cape Town

This month’s weather in Noordhoek
This month’s tides in Noordhoek

23 & 24 September
24 September
3 September
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August 2017

The sun is speeding up its journey south again – we can’t tell this from the cool wind still blowing from the northwest but from the tiny buds on the Noordhoek Common oak trees and on the grape vine shoots outside the window!

7 Aug: Lunar eclipse over Noordhoek
9 Aug: Women’s Day @ Red Herring Restaurant
19 Aug: Strandloper Trail run – Noordhoek to Scarborough
31 Aug: Deadline for the 2017 Noordhoek Photography Competition

all Aug: Weekly live music evenings at Noordhoek’s Cafe Roux
all Aug: Experience beer tasting by the Aegir Project @ Red Herring Centre

August weather in Noordhoek
August tides in Noordhoek