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The Best Kept Secret in Johannesburg.

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Subscribe in a reader The Best Kept Secret in Johannesburg. I also did not know. This place is just only 20 min from me and 20-30 min from Krugersdorp, or 15 min from very busy Shopping Centre Cradlestone and Silverstar Casino. When you turn on the road towards Forum Homini Hotel and Restaurant (by the way- very good restaurant, gourmet food, and situated in a picturesque setting, but I will tell you all about it in my next post), you are entering Cradle of Humankind world. From this road you can go to Sterkfontein Caves, but today we will go together with you, my reader, to a completely different place. I don’t like to talk too much about places, may be because I am more visual person, and I like to show pictures. However, Google does not like it. Google likes more text in our blogs, that’s why my blog will never be profitable. Because I like pictures more. How you can describe the place, without showing you all the beauty, the colors, and the pure nature? Big city, Like Johann

Oyster Festival in Johannesburg

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Subscribe in a reader Wow! It is this time of the year again. Because the weather is not good, it is cold and windy, no more travelling. Most of Johannesburg residents prefer either to stay at home or to go locally. May be to Oyster Festival at Montecasino. You kill two birds with one stone. Montecasino is pleasant on it’s own and here it’s an Oyster Festival. 6500 oysters must be eaten, plenty of other food and more than 50 different types of wine is waiting for you. Johannesburg today is looking like a 40-something beautiful woman, lived a lot, loved a lot, a bit tired. She woke up in the morning and in need of pain killers or something stronger, may be a joint, and definitely in need of make up. Everything today looks grey, no sun. It is incredibly cold and windy, recent rains brought chill and the air is humid. So, there is nothing else to do, and I decided to go with my friend. She has a tendency to jump on a last train, and it is almost impossible to get her