An 80 year-old Italian lady is in a bit of trouble with her local church after it would appear she ruined one of it’s 19th-century paintings. “The Fresco” – painted by Elías García Martínez, is a valuable oil painting of Jesus, staring off the edge of the painting wearing a crown of thorns.
Earlier this year, it was reported that 1time Airline was in serious financial trouble, and some even wondered if they’d be around next year. 1time now requires a business rescue as they are “financially distressed”, and owe millions.
“‘Hey that’s my seat man,’ I said. A quick drawing ‘fuck you its mine now’ was the response as I sat down next to him mumbling ‘charming’.” That’s pretty much how movie producer Cassian Elwes’s cross-country flight started when he found an unruly ex-marine in his seat, and it was all uphill from there.
The exact same 1time aircraft that was forced to make an emergency landing on August 5th this year was forced to do the same yesterday afternoon on its way to Durban from Cape Town.
“At Inner City American Muscle car show…Heritage Square Cape Town..A reving Chev Firenza…suddenly ploughed into people standing around the car…A minute or so before I was kneeling in front of the car taking pics….I counted 6 injured”
Here’s the best news a lot of men may read this week: Scientists and dermatologists are confident that a new lotion could be on the shelves in two years which will prevent you from having to do that awkward comb-over every morning.
Restaurants are quite possibly one of the oldest forms of social setting. You get to indulge many pleasures at once – eating, drinking, conversations, romance, and you don’t even have to do the dishes afterwards. Modern times have ruined us though. Interaction takes place from the bright screen of a smartphone, begging for us to check our emails, just “quickly reply” to that instant message, or check-in on Facebook.
Sick and tired of baby photos taking up your news feed on Facebook? There’s a solution for that: Unbaby.me will replace baby photos with whatever you’d prefer to see, like bacon for example.
To celebrate the launch of their sizeable new ½ litre cider, Savanna is giving you the chance to win big by turning your everyday mundane moments into breaking news. All you need to do to enter the competition is visit the Savanna Facebook page and post your Big News headline on the Savanna Big News […]
As we all know, matric dance season is here. For hormonal teenage girls, and high schoolers in general, this is a very stressful time of the year. Even if you’ve got your dress, car, before- and after-parties, and everything in-between sorted, you’re still have to find the perfect date. So why not ask Chad le Clos?
Check out next month’s cover of Playboy! Way back in March you told you all about Kate’s stripper cousin, Katrina Darling, who has her own burlesque show. Well, it turns out there’s been some interest from Camp Hefner, as she’s gonna be on the cover of next month’s Playboy.
Ciro and Gavin test drove the new BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe. So if you’re in the market for a car in this category, or if you’re ever so slightly interested in what BMW have done with this diesel engine (performance in line with old M5s!) and why you consider the 4-door, check out this quick review.
International cigarette companies are busy scrambling after an Australian court has held that it’s perfectly legal to strip cigarette packs of all their branding. Instead, cigarette boxes will come in a uniform olive drab box, covered in health warnings and only stating the brand and variant of cigarette in a standardised font.
The University of Adelaide has reported a major breakthrough in opiate addiction: addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.
My buddy Justin sent these through and he asked if I had seen them before. Indeed I had, and I actually receive the same set quite regularly, but I’m not sure if they have been published before on 2oceansvibe. I certainly can’t find them anyway. Have a gander – they’re rad!
It’s a big, rich wine and it’s a bargain. I prefer the latter to the former, but it’s such a deal I thought it worth writing about. Everybody loves a good bargain. That’s the appeal of flea-markets and second-hand shops. I recently found awesome steam-punk styled salt ‘n pepper grinders for R100. The joy of […]
The Olympics are officially and you’ve undoubtedly been left with a gaping void in desperate need of filling. Seeing as the next epic installment is four long years away, it’s best to start weening yourself off slowly as soon as possible and what better way to begin that process than with an awesome gallery of multi-exposure photographs from this year’s games.
Anyone who knows anything about media and in particular international supermodels (hipsters, you might need to close your eyes and ears at this point) will be interested in the fact that Australian supermodel Abbey Lee Kershaw was recently in Cape Town.
I’m glad this has happened, because it sparks an interesting debate regarding luxury consumerism and expectations. In this case it’s to do with two 1st Class passengers on a Qantas flight from LA to Melbourne. Did they do the right thing or were they being ridiculous?
Malta. Middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Occupied for hundreds of years by marauding Ottoman Turks, Crusaders, the British – you name it. Some country you know has probably made an attempt at conquering the cluster of three islands – Malta, Gozo and Comino. Malta is not a destination that you think of when contemplating a […]
Two wines delivered to me recently seem to show the two sides of South African wine at the moment sits. At least on the supermarket shelf side of things. The one showed progression, innovation (sort of), deliciousness and consideration; the other was a lesson in the typical, the normal and the unsurprising.
Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and I took The Muse to The Mount Nelson for a spot good old fashioned loving. While we were there, relaxing, as one does, on a public holiday, I decided that the rest of the weekend needed to be used appropriately. That’s when I once again turned to the go! Travel app on my iPad for some motivation and some ideas.
Okes, it is time to impress. It’s National Braai Day on 24 September, and my good friend, Jan Braai, who started the initiative for all of you, has written a book called Fireworks to help you braai more like he would.
Radical video footage has emerged, taken from inside the cockpit of a plane in Idaho, as it went down through a forest. All four passengers survived. You gotta watch this. According to the Telegraph: The footage, posted on YouTube last week, shows the excited travellers record their take-off onboard the small propeller-driven plane as they […]
On 18 August, the Springboks will play Argentina in their opening match of the Castle Lager Rugby Championship (formerly Tri-Nations) at Newlands in Cape Town.
If online fashion shopping is getting you down, you’ll like what PopYaCollar has done. Finally you can shop Cape Town’s boutique fashion outlets in the comfort of your own home – with free 24 hour delivery.
If you know the feeling of struggling through the last kilometre of your run, take heed of these five tips, as the songs on your running playlist may be the key to giving you that final burst of strength.
“The plane that we were on was old and had sticky tape holding up the emergency exit sign,” says 1Time passenger about Sunday’s 1Time flight T6 653 that made an emergency landing shortly after take-off.
Have you heard about the go! Travel South Africa App for iPad? My goodness it’s mind blowing!
South African Airways is introducing a new check-in baggage policy on September 5, 2012, and it restricts the number of pieces of baggage a passenger may check in, rather than the total weight of the passenger’s checked baggage.