1. Take a walk through Cecelia forest, in Constantia. Fresh and foresty, enough outdoors to get your heart pumping and remind you how well that respiratory apparatus works out of smog.
2. Buy an olive loaf, brie and the white rock with cranberries (ah-mazing), or other picnic-type deliciousness from woollies (in Constantia village, if you don’t feel it’s too far) and take it, with a picnic blanket to jammie stairs (at UCT) – watch the city sink into Friday evening.
3. Wine and Chuckles – anywhere you can think of, but best could be your lawn under the stars- plus no one has to drive home.
4. Shnuggle with a rented copy of 500 days of Summer and covet Zooey Deschanel’s bangs.
5. Hit an old coffee spot for nostalgia’s sake, and then an old nightclub – just for an hour, or if it livens up, a little longer.
6. Saturday morning only has one option really, the Neighbourgoods Market at the Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock. Head there early for a chance at a table and fresh flowers and be sure not to eat beforehand. Open from 9am to 3pm. Alternatively, head out later and bask in sun with a bottle of red and a group of handsomely barefoot individuals.
7. Take a drive to Hout Bay via Camps. Be certain to stop somewhere arb and appreciate the sea from upside down on a rock- just to feel a little inadequate. Try Kimya Dawson’s song, 'I like Giants' on for size:
“When I go for a drive, I like to pull off to the side
Of the road and run and jump into the ocean in my clothes.
I’m smaller than a poppy seed inside a great big bowl
And the ocean is a giant that can swallow me whole
...
It’s only really scary ‘cause it makes me feel serene,
In a way I never thought I’d be because I’ve never been
So grounded and so humbled and so one with everything.”
8. Grab some famously battered hake at Fish on the Rocks, beyond Mariner’s Wharf in Hout Bay and slum it with the local fishermen and families. Worth the drive anyday.
9. Bake custard biscuits, choc chip cookies or jammie dodgers with happy-making girls. Double up the recipe and leave half raw - custard dough = beautiful. Buy some dough from PnP and plait into pretzels or loaves and eat fresh or wrap in a cloth for a picnic in a wigwam in the forest.
10. Buy rotis from Sunrise Chip ‘n Ranch (supposedly the biggest rotis in Afirca) and use as pizza bases. Invite people to bring their favourite toppings and cheese and have an indoor picnic with a tagteam in the kitchen, churning out fresh, hot pizzas.
For a delicious custard biscuit recipe, read this lovely little blog here, and follow the link.
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