09/08/2013
Thanks Caltex Eastern Cape Marketer for my first Platinum CD award! more…
08/28/2013
08/27/2013
08/26/2013
There is one set of road signs that always grab my attention. I may not pass there often, but the rusty road signs on the old R335 just north of the Zuurberg Pass is my favourite road sign in th more…
08/25/2013
Africa has the most beautiful sunsets. This one taken through a sweet thorn tree just north of Port Elizabeth more…
08/24/2013
Tomorrow is the last Sunday of the month which means it’s Art in the Park in St Georges Park. more…
08/23/2013
I love game drives. Being out in the open and fresh air with a breeze in your face and the sound of birds around. Watching animals in their natural environment. The sun rising or set more…
08/22/2013
On the way back from spending a day in the Gamtoos Valley, I decided to take a drive through the Van Stadens Pass and stop at the bottom to snap a couple of pics (and log the geocache hidden ther more…
08/21/2013
Last Saturday (17 August 2013) I joined a number of fellow geocachers in celebrating International Geocaching Day with a CITO event in the Baakens Valley at the back of Beverley Grove. CITO more…
08/20/2013
Everlasting flowers amongst the Fynbos on the hillside close to Cotswold more…
08/19/2013
05/15/2013
On Thursday, May 9, the PE Coffee Crawl hit the century mark! To celebrate the occasion the Crawlers decided to meet and have coffee at the new Boardwalk Hotel’s Kiplings Restaurant. Kipli more…
05/07/2013
I haven’t found it necessary to use my GPS here for quite a while. I dusted it off and plugged it in, though, when I received a Coffee Crawl recommendation to visit The Tin House at 35 Cuyler in more…
05/02/2013
For the past three years in mid-March Lou and I have participated in the Lake Farm Centre 5K Fun Run which is part of the centre’s biggest annual fund raiser. After the run we stop in the centre more…
04/28/2013
04/23/2013
Thursday morning as I was preparing to leave my house for the Crawl I noticed the slight beginnings of a rainbow in the distant sky. The route I took to this week’s coffee shop (tea ga more…
04/16/2013
There are only a few coffee shops in PE where their coffee beans are roasted right on the premises. Thursday’s Crawl site, Roast Master Cafe at Moffett on Main Lifestyle Centre in Walmer, is one more…
04/09/2013
I’m not much of shopper, thus, I don’t spend a lot of time at the malls here. So, when Keith suggested we try Pierre’s Bistro at the Greenacres Shopping Centre for the Crawl I knew I would have more…
04/02/2013
Braai, bonnet and boot, green fingers, costume, robots, geyser….. these are just a few South African English words that, out of necessity, have become part of my working vocabulary since o more…
03/26/2013
It was around the mid-1900s when young Michael Edwards of PE decided to leave the nest and build his own home down the road aways from his parents. He used the limestone dug up from the land to more…
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Alan Straton
Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth.
Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
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