Be a tourist in your own town and start with walking your city. Walking (and bicycle tours) are something I do in every new city I visit, always guided, but this particular Walk gives tourists and locals the opportunity to do an organised tour or go it on their own, …
Beautiful Cape Town
Since my trip to Portugal last December, I’ll admit that I’ve become a bit obsessed by street art. What I saw in Lisbon – mostly vast wall paintings by the brilliant Os Gemeos and Blu – took my breath away and little did I know that right under my nose …
Vintage Day in Observatory, Cape Town. I heard about it from a friend of mind from Istanbul would you believe? On holiday here, she texted me Sunday morning asking if Lateral Paul & I wanted to join her there. A quick Google about the event and voila, we were on …
I live in a great neighbourhood in this gorgeous city of Cape Town, called Oranjezicht (orange view in Dutch). Situated beneath Table Mountain, it’s an old suburb that was built on the site of the old Oranjezicht farm, which used to stretch at least as far as the Mount Nelson Hotel and supplied …
The beauty of Cape Town, aside from the fact that it’s a gorgeous place to live, is what it offers locals and tourists alike. It has a unique proximity to blue flag beaches, magnificent mountains, botanical gardens, forests, and, those places where we all love to linger longer, wine farms, …
Before I wax lyrical about the glorious gardens of the Steenberg Farm, let me first share a bit of history about this marvellous establishment in the Constantia Valley that I was privileged to visit last weekend…Steenberg Farm is as old as the stoney hills that surround it – in fact …
I’ve just had one of my best weekends away ever. To do the experience justice, I’m going to upload more than one post so as not to bore anyone with a blog that goes on forever….all that amazingness needs the appropriate attention, so I’ll launch with Friday, the start of …
For the past 8 days we’ve been hosting a young man called Matteo from Venice who’s been staying with us as part of a scholar exchange between my younger son Oscar’s school, Camps Bay High, & 2 schools over in that stunning Italian city, the names of which I totally …
There are only a handful of places in Cape Town selling AMAZING coffee and The Power & the Glory is one of them. They stock Deluxe beans, very popular in this town. FYI other great coffee shops in the Mother City (that’s what we fondly call Cape Town) are The …
Next to superstar ballet dancers, uber chefs are amongst my favourite PTA (People To Admire). There are only a handful in our fine city that are truly outstanding and it’s not often I get to meet and speak at length with any of them. But halfway into this year I’ve …