{"id":139,"date":"2004-07-03T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2004-07-03T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T11:51:00","slug":"caffe-magnifico-canal-walk-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/caffe-magnifico-canal-walk-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Caffe Magnifico, Canal Walk, Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Saturday, July 03, 2004<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Food: * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Ambience: * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Babe Count: * * * <\/i><b> * *<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In Cape Town, there are two types of women. Beautiful women. And extraordinarily beautiful women. There&#8217;s no such thing as a dog in this town. And because there&#8217;s a shortage of men, it seems that all of these outrageously gorgeous babes have some sort of self-esteem way going on.<\/p>\n<p>Pick out a supermodel stunner from any mall passage at random, and say, &#8220;You&#8217;re really beautiful,&#8221; and she&#8217;ll go, &#8220;Oh, no! I&#8217;m average at best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like competition.       Survival of the fittest.<\/p>\n<p>Canal Walk is in Century City near Blouberg Strand. It&#8217;s in an area that used to be the arse end of Cape Town, but it&#8217;s the latest area of Growth. This particular shopping mall is the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mysite.mweb.co.za\/residents\/rb000004\/Caffe_Magnifico.jpg?resize=200%2C266\" alt=\"This is NOT a drawing of a Cape Town babe. It's one of the quaint boys with coiffed hair and aftershave.\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" width=\"200\" \/>I&#8217;m sitting at Caffe Magnifico, slap bang between two escalators. I get to see up the skirts of the babes as they travel up into shoppers&#8217; paradise, and I get to see the faces of the beauts coming back down, bathed in radiance and bliss.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here because Leigh has taken Oscar to go and see HARRY POTTER III, which I&#8217;ve already seen. Oscar&#8217;s been with Leigh since last night, and he had no problem at all with me colonising his bedroom. He&#8217;s cool to sleep in Leigh&#8217;s bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How come?&#8221; I said to him last       night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cos you snore,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you know I       snore?&#8221; I say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad told me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leigh&#8217;s nodding hugely. &#8220;When I went to work this morning, you were snoring your head off,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I could hear you all the way from the kitchen downstairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film finishes, and Leigh and Oscar approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do       that magic trick!&#8221; Oscar commands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t,&#8221; I say.       &#8220;Harry Potter is the magic one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do it! Put the coin in       your ear and make it come out of your other ear! DO IT!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made the fatal mistake of doing the kind of trick you are expressly forbidden from doing in front of a five year old: any trick which involves the placing of small objects in any body orifice is just verboten. But I forgot to self censor when I first showed him the trick, and now he can&#8217;t get enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Promise me first that you WILL NEVER PUT ANYTHING IN       YOUR EAR, OR MOUTH, OR NOSE!&#8221; I say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do the trick!&#8221; he       says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Promise first,&#8221; I say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do the trick. And like all good tricks that involve a coin passing between the ears, straight through the brain, the pain is immense! But I survive. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 03, 2004 Service: * * Food: * * * Ambience: * * Babe Count: * * * * * In Cape Town, there are two types of women. Beautiful women. And extraordinarily beautiful women. 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