This article first appeared in the Sunday Times SA In 2013, Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen opened JAN in the vieux Port of Nice on the Côte d’Azur. Three years later he became the first South African chef to be awarded a prized Michelin Star- bestowed annually since then- and…
I’m obsessed with street art. Last week I did a refresher of the walls in Salt River, one of the Mother City’s oldest neighbourhoods and with a prolific outdoor public art gallery. This article ran in the Sunday Times on 22 Sept, 2019 Street art in the Mother City…
Seychelles-putting new meaning into my mission to #travelwithpurpose. Have a scroll and be inspired to visit. In this post: Victoria / Mahe, Praslin, Curieuse, Cousin, La Digue, environmental overview: a 5-10 minute read As sailing regions and eco destinations go, the Seychelles delivers spectacularly on every level. The island kingdom,…
This article is in the September edition of Juice mag, the inflight publication for MANGO Airlines Jack Kerouac liked to compare mountains to Buddha. “Think of the patience”, he wrote, “hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and praying for all living creatures in that…
Cape Town is a coveted dining destination for gourmands, nothing new in that. But aside from the brigade of award-winning chefs gracing the Mother City’s top end eateries, there are a number of uber cooks flying under the recognition radar who between them have chalked up blue chip resumés with…