Markets in and around Muizenberg

There are lots of different places in Muizenberg and the closer surroundings where you can go to shop or just to enjoy all kinds of food. Every Sunday there is the Muizenberg flea market where you can buy cheap dresses, backpacks or handmade leather bags. But there are also strange things to find, for example used bathroom fittings or toilet seats. The handmade leather bracelets are cheap and look really nice.

OldBiscuitMill-1Old Biscuit Mill Market in Woodstock

Last Saturday Saskia, Sara, Freddie and me went to the Old Biscuit Mill Market in Woodstock, close to Cape Town. It consists of a big flea market with high quality and therefore really expensive clothes, bags, furniture and other odds and ends. We just saunted and marveled at the beautiful necklaces that were way too expensive to buy. The other part of Old Biscuit Mill Market is a really nice food market, where you can find everything that the heart could wish for. I had a really good traditional “Flammkuchen” that reminded me of good old Germany while the girls had Pizza. It was so much fun sitting there in the sun with good food, chatting and enjoying the good atmosphere of the Old Biscuit Mill Market.

OldBiscuiMill-2All kinds of food at the lovely market…

DCIM100GOPROPizza and sun at Old Biscuit Mill Market

One of the most impressive and beautiful markets is the weekly outdoor food market at Cape Point Vineyards in Noordhoek. It is every Thursday and is from 4.30pm to 8.30pm. We went there in Ants old opened jeep to watch sunset in the amazing view of cape point vineyards and the ocean. The drive there was windy but the view of the setting sun compensated everything.

CapePointMarket-1Ride in Ant´s car

The food at Cape Point Market is delicious and spectrum ranges from fudge and banana crêpe to fancy cakes and from paella to oysters. You can sit on a large lawn in front of the modern natural stone house and drink wine, count stars in the incredibly clear sky and try to see the star signs.

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CapePointMarket3Sunset at Cape Point Market

Every Friday there is the Blue Bird Garage Food & Goods Market in Muizenberg. It is an indoor market, consisting of a foodmarket and a fleemarket. Compared to the Cape Point Vineyard Market it is not as fancy but therefore a lot more chilled and cosy. I went there with Saskia and after eating a really good Burger while sitting on a cosy ale-bench, we went to shop at the fleamarket. Here you can get everything from old books, home made jewelry to clothes. It was funny watching Zeus, acting like a guest of honor, straying around, getting stroked and trying to get as much leftover food as possible.

MuizenbergMarket1We enjoyed the sunset bevor we went to Muizenberg Market

MuizenbergMarket2Cosy atmosphere at Blue Bird Garage Food & Goods Market

Anna, MBC volunteer from Germany