• Spread Your Wings with Travelstart’s Cheap Domestic Flights

    11 January 2018 - By 

    For South African travellers, particularly those with a penchant for flying, it is surely music to your ears any time you stumble across an affordable local service… Fortunately – while I have yet to fly myself (though it’s definitely on my travel bucket list!) – I know that, through African travel industry leader, Travelstart, both local travellers, like myself, and international visitors to SA shores can enjoy securing affordable domestic flights on Travelstart. Thanks to Africa’s pioneering online travel agency. So, while the lingering, almost unanimous feeling across South Africa remains that access to low-cost flights is simply wishful thinking,…

  • Guests’ Corner: Sheena Deepnarain, Pot of Gold

    8 November 2017 - By 

    As part of the next instalment in my Guests’ Corner, a new travel interview segment on Tamlyn Amber Wanderlust, I chatted to SA local travel blogger, actress and producer, Sheena Deepnarain. Sheena Deepnarain is a South African actress, producer and travel and lifestyle blogger. Sheena leads a life of luxury, with confetti thrown over for good measure. She has been cast in some of South Africa’s most prestigious soapies, including Scandal!, Generations, Jacobs Cross & Zabalaza to name a few, as well as several commercials.  Her blog, Pot of Gold, was launched in November 2016 when Sheena decided to uproot her…

  • Guests’ Corner: Verushka Ramasami, SpiceGoddess

    29 August 2017 - By 

    As part of the first instalment of my Guests’ Corner, a new travel interview segment on Tamlyn Amber Wanderlust, I chatted to fellow SA travel blogger, Verushka Ramasami. Verushka is mistress of words from Durban, South Africa’s sunny city. She is a lifestyle blogger who loves vanilla, travel, books and gadgets. Verushka’s blog, SpiceGoddess, is inspired by a book and movie called Mistress of the Spices; it’s based around an Indian spice shop in America and the beautiful woman who works there. For Verushka, it made sense to keep the Spice bit and add Goddess… hence, the blog’s name, SpiceGoddess,…

  • Bakery + Cafe Review: Vovo Telo, Cape Town

    15 February 2016 - By 

    I’m blessed with some fairly extraordinary people in my life and I’m never more of aware of this fact than when my birthday rolls around each February. This year was no different and for my entire, so-called ‘birthday week’, friends and family made sure I was blessed with: love, good company and, not least of all, amazing food – and some top quality ‘caffeine fixes’ too! As a very special birthday treat, one of my close friends said weeks in advance that she wanted to take me out for a light meal and coffee at a place of my choosing.…