Weekends Away Titbits
One of the things about working so hard, are the rewards that come in unexpected ways!
On Friday afternoon, JUSTUS decided on a ‘spur of the moment whim’ to pop over to our offices and provide us with the most enjoyable entertainment to end of a hard week.
Now you tell me, where else in town would you have been able to sit outside your offices underneath a beautiful blue sky and listen to your very own special private performance?
Life does not get much better!!
Justus is an acoustic band focused on delivering top quality live music. They play music from artists such as Cat Stevens, The Beatles, The Doors, Seal and Counting Crows.
They also have a fabulous Poi Sun Tribal Dance and fusion extravaganza. Poi is the ancient warrior Dance routine of the Mauri people in New Zealand.
The group is perfect for office parties, Christmas parties and more - there prices are also very attractive which makes them a perfect choice!
Have a wonderfully productive and happy week!
With love
The Weekends-Away team.
Corporate
There is an exceptional amount of money spent in the corporate arena on gifts.
Sadly a lot of these gifts come from outside the country (mostly China).
Weekends Away has made it a rule to promote local products wherever possible and Street Wires is one of them.
They have a range of products that you can choose from starting at business card holders through to trophies. All of these products can be branded.
Teambuilding
Not only can you order your company Christmas gifts through Street Wires, you can also do teambuilding with the StreetWires Team -
Spend an afternoon or evening after a conference learning the Art of Wire Art -
No-one is exactly certain how wire art came about. The most likely origins of this art form are the tranquil hills of Maputoland and Zululand in rural Northern Kwazulu-Natal, in the North-East corner of South Africa. For many years, due to a lack of resources to buy proper toys, the young herdboys of these regions have been fashioning their own out of discarded coathanger wire, tin cans and whatever else they can get their hands on. Their ingenuity is quite amazing, and it is not an uncommon sight to see one of these boys steering a fully functional, made-to-scale model car crafted solely from discarded materials, complete with independent axles, fully functional steering column and a keen attention paid to details such as licence plates, headlights and in some cases, optional extras like mag wheels and free-flow exhausts……
Email ronel@weekends-away.com to order your Christmas Gifts or to spend some time doing Wire Art -
Team-Building Activity of the Week:
‘Drum Café vs 1st Project’ is a high-tech, fast-paced production which juxtaposes traditional and modern music and drumming. It is a celebration of Africa and the West providing audiences with an exhilarating 80 minutes of non-stop entertainment.
On entering the theatre, each member of the audience will find an African drum and a boomwhacker on his or her seat, and through an expertly facilitated process, audiences will become cast members in this fully interactive show.
Throughout, audiences will be torn between the thrill of drumming and the pleasure of watching the exuberant performance and the sexy, topless guys.
This joyous extravaganza of cutting-edge music and stage performance will appeal to a wide range of theatre audiences, especially the young and funky, who will undoubtedly leave the show feeling invigorated and recharged.
“They’re fun, funky and have everyone out of there seats at a snap of a finger”
Email ronel@weekends-away.com for more info
Conference Speakers International
Conference Speakers International
Patricia’s journey shadowed that of her adventurer ancestors, Sir Richard Glyn and his brother Robert, who came to Africa in 1863 because they’d read David Livingstone’s account of ‘The Smoke That Thunders’ and wanted to see this mighty cascade and to hunt Africa’s big game.
Using Richard’s diary about the old party’s trip, Patricia found and walked their route along the 19th-century wagon trails that once snaked along the great river systems of South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. She crashed through thick bush and deep Kalahari sand, walked unarmed in Big Five territory and consorted with Zimbabwe’s notorious ‘war veterans’. When her ancestors’ wagons moved, so did she, where they stopped for provisions, so did she - eventually reaching The Falls on exactly the same day as they had, 142 years later.
Patricia’s talk about her walk is richly illustrated by magnificent slides and wonderful video footage. It highlights how much the subcontinent has changed in the century-and-a-half between these expeditions, and comprises a very personal wake-up call to the destruction for which we are all responsible. The presentation is also about Patricia reaching her destination through the kindness and hospitality of Africa’s rural people. It’s a tale about personal development, as the woman who could hardly read a map learned how to navigate by GPS and lead her two-person back-up team through the thirst land on the peripheries of the Kalahari. It’s about the crew’s near disasters, their highs and their lows. It’s about the wonder and simple delights of camping in the great African outdoors. It’s a tale about meeting challenges, facing fear and being rewarded with great insights and even greater peace. The presentation is brutally honest, extremely funny in places and deeply moving.
To book Patricia for your next event,
please call Robyn on (011) 465 4447/57 or 0861SPEAKERS
Incentive
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Friday 7th to Sunday 9th September 2007
Whether it be the Grand Prix, the Olympics in China, or the world cup Rugby - incentivise your team with one of these great once in a life time events -
We are able to put together the perfect package with seats and access to the pits or the change rooms.
We work with a team that specializes in sports travel around the world and as such can offer you the very best -
Email mandy@weekends-away.com for more info
Adventure News
The original Camel Man!!
4×4 Off-Roading and 4×4 Trails
There are 4×4 trails in the Drakensberg that are amongst the best in the country, taking you to places you never dreamed of being able to visit. Natural obstacles - steep slopes, rock steps, sand river crossings, mud shale slopes - will take your driving skills to the limit. And there are training courses for the uninitiated and specialist obstacle trails for the truly dedicated.
Provided you take reasonable precautions 4×4 trails are an immensely rewarding experience.
You may wish to follow the routes of the red coats up Amajuba or get close to the fauna and flora in the Tugela Biosphere.
Enquire about 4×4 off-roading and 4×4 trails Merl runs a booking agency which offers a very friendly and professional service. She specializes in the Drakensberg region
Drakensberg 4×4 trail directory
- Mikes Pass - This 4×4 trail is located in the Cathedral Peak Section of the Northern and Central Drakensberg. This 32km trail is one of the most scenically beautiful anywhere. It includes some steep climbs and a hair-raising 7km downhill on the pass.
- Sani Pass - This is a fairly challenging 4×4 route with access from Himeville in the southern Drakensberg. The pass twists and climbs upwards, beneath towering cliffs and buttresses, reaching the top of the Drakensberg escarpment at 2 873m. You need a passport to cross the border post into Lesotho at the top.
- Thule Beacon Trail - From St Bernards Peak in East Griqualand. This trail is renowned as a tough 4×4 trail that takes you high into the southern Drakensberg mountains. The experts say that this trail is much tougher than Sani Pass.
Competition
Win accommodation and dinner along the Midlands Meander -
Accommodation is on Stocklands Farm - set in 10 acres of garden and pastures, this 150 year-old stone house with original yellowwood ceilings and doors offers luxurious accommodation in either private en-suite bedrooms or in self-catering cottages. www.stocklandsfarm.co.za
Dinner is at Yellow Wood Café - www.yellowwood.co.za
In order to win 1 night’s accommodation and dinner for two send your email address to Tamara (tamara@weekends-away.com)
Please also refer to a friend - for each referral, you receive an additional entry -
Training
The Nutshell Series
So you don’t have the time for courses that run for days?
Then our “Nutshell” series is for you!
A Nutshell workshop is a half day class for busy people who want to develop key insights into certain topics.
05-Sep-2007 Wed Managing Diversity
19-Sep-2007 Wed Project Management
26-Sep-2007 Wed HIV/AIDS Management
Booking or Queries: 011 453 0555 Speak to Rebone or Terje.
E-mail hrpractice@hrpractice.co.za
Activist Issues
If you would like an issue highlighted here, then email me the details and we will publish it - this newsletter goes to 42 000 people and your voice will definitely be heard -
Giving South Africa’s baboons a second chance
The Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education (C.A.R.E) was established by 1989 as a rehabilitation centre for injured and orphaned indigenous wildlife. Situated on the banks of the Olifants River in close proximity to the greater Kruger National Park; the centre today specialises in the rehabilitation of Chacma baboons.
In 2006 C.A.R.E. with the assistance of IFAW released a troop of 25 baboons into Mosdene Private Game Reserve in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. One year on and the release has proven to be a huge success in terms of C.A.R.E.’s release program.
Click here to read more about C.A.R.E. and the Mosdene release
Thought for the week
“The roses bloom so beautifully because they are not trying to become lotuses. And
the lotuses bloom so beautifully because they have not heard the legends about other flowers. Everything in nature goes so beautifully in accord, because nobody is trying to compete with anybody, nobody is trying to become anybody else. Everything is the way
it is. Just see the point! Just be yourself and remember you cannot be anything else, whatsoever you do. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself……”
Osho
Help keep our country and it’s cities tidy
A tidy city is the sign of a civilized society!