Hi everyone!
My name is Karisa. I’m a lover of good food & wine, exploring & trying out new things, travelling, adventure, having a good laugh, retail therapy and most importantly the city of Cape Town.
My Love Affair with Cape Town is my little space to show off this incredible city which I get to call “home”. I blog about anything & everything Cape Town related with some personal bits of my own thrown in here and here. My interests & passions include:
- Mini Coopers! (love them)
- Fashion
- Eating out & wine tasting
- All things sweet & indulgent
- Cool new products
- Events / Parties / Shows
- Interesting shops & markets
- Awesome chill out spots
- Pampering girly things
- Getaways
- Festivals and more…
But how did I get into blogging?
In 2011 I embarked on a 4 week solo journey through the beautiful country that is Italia. While over there I kept a mini travel blog called My Love Affair with Italy (which you can check out over here if you’ve been thinking of heading over there as well: http://myloveaffairwithitaly.wordpress.com).
The idea behind the Italy blog was just to share my experience with my friends and family. I knew that there’d be so much to tell once I got back home and I’d likely have to retell the same stories over and over again, so I figured by keeping a bit of an online visual diary as I progressed, I would save myself a bit of that schlep and I would also not forget any cool details. But surprisingly, by the end of my trip there were lots of people I didn’t know from a bar of soap who were following my blog. I never for a moment thought anybody other than direct family & friends would find it interesting. So it was really awesome to see the readership grow and grow. Somewhere between Venice & Positano the blogging bug hit me hard. I really enjoyed having a creative outlet of sorts and I started thinking about how I could keep it going once I got back home.
With a bit of motivation from some friends & family, I decided that I would write about my ongoing love affair with the city that is and will always be my first love… Cape Town. As much as I enjoy travelling as frequently as I can, I’m always very happy to come home.
This city constantly surprises me and never fails to make me smile. I count myself truly lucky to be living in such a vibrant, exciting & beautiful place.
Some other cools things:
- I was rated as one of Excellent Media’s top 10 Female Bloggers in South Africa
- I’m WalkedThru.com‘s Cape Town blogger (they’re a specialist blogging community where you can find out about any & every topic you can think of)
- You can take a peek into my wardrobe with And Lollipops blog over here
- I did a What I know/love/want/wear/need piece with Becoming you blog over here
- And I’ve even been in Huisgenoot!
Proof over here
xxx
Hey! Nominated you for Sunshine Award.Check out my post for more infos!
I’m desperately looking for the contact number(s) for Pancake Perfect. Can you help? Lesley
Hi, I’ve nominated you for the Addictive Blog Award https://crushland.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/the-addictive-blog-award/
Hi Shafeeqa. Thank you so much. I feel very honoured indeed. xxx
This is wonderful. I’m a Belgian student, who visited Cape Town as a kid and fell in love with the place instantly. I’m returning this February. I’ll keep an eye on your blog! Thanks for this!
Oh awesome! Well welcome back (almost). I’m sure you’re going to fall in love with this city all over again.
Found your blog while searching for info on the Bijou Theatre! Thanks for the post, now I know it actually is functioning part of the city of Cape Town. Keep the posts coming!
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I really love hearing that people find my posts helpful in some way.
Love your blog! Well written (which I appreciate as a stickler for good grammer), thoughtful content and wonderfully witty. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and paying tribute to my favourite city, my hometown and the place of my birth!
Thanks so much Mica! You have no idea how amazing feedback like this makes me feel. So happy that enjoy it. And even happier that you love this city as much as I do. A big virtual hug to you! Xxx
Came across your blog searching for frozen yogurt cape town and can say I’m quite happy I landed on your blog! I’ve been living here for 2 months, and I wish I had seen all your cool insight on Cape Town earlier….but overall just wanted to say thanks for writing and definitely following your blog now!
Hi Kelly! Thanks so much for the kind words. It always makes me happy to hear that people find my ramblings useful.
Keep well. Xxx
hey Karisa, i’m loving your blog! Thanks for sharing all the Cape Town info and showing off our most beautiful city
take care x
Thank you so much. I’m so glad you enjoy it. And yeah, we are lucky to be living in such a beautiful city. X
randomly come across your Blog after doing a Google search for Britesmile… SUPER impressed!
clean layout – easy to read – great content and just all round cool
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p.s. keep up the super work!
Thank you so much *blush*
it’s always awesome to get positive feedback.
Beautiful blog Karisa!
Thank you so much. Always great to get positive feedback. X
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Hey Karisa,
Just wanted to let you know that your other blog of your tour in Italy was awesome and had a good read of your tour and hope that you don’t mind but I’ve sent it on to a client of mine that wants to travel to Italy and they was simply loving the detail and pics.
So I just wanted to say thank you for it as it helped me a lot!
Good luck with your new venture!
Cheerio
Stephan
Hi Stephan. Thanks so much for the awesome feedback. You can forward it on to as many people as you like!
I’m just glad that it’s a useful to others. Really loved Italy. Am planning to go back again and again.
Keep well,
K
Awesome, give leila some friendly competition. I see a twitter handle in ur near future