Located outside the tranquil West Coast town of Langebaan – and happily found along the West Coast Way foodie and scenic route – lies the vast and unquestionably magical, 1460-hectare fynbos and game farm: Thali Thali Game Lodge. Here, from the moment the gate shuts behind you, closing out the […]
In early October 2014, I first had the pleasure of travelling to Simon’s Town, which is about an hour or so from Cape Town, depending on traffic and which route you take to get there. This historic naval town has a rich, multi-cultural history and offers visitors some wonderful travel […]
Please note: Tour information and pricing may have changed but the experience is still accurately portrayed in this review. This past Saturday, I had the enormous pleasure of experiencing the Blue Line of the Franschhoek Wine Tram. Like their other lines (of which there are several), it allows passengers the […]
In April, I finally had the chance to ‘hop on, hop off’ one of the Mother City’s most familiar sights: the bright red, open top CitySightseeing Cape Town buses. These buses exist in cities worldwide – and ever since I first discovered the sightseeing tours on offer, I have felt […]
This past week saw me exploring two of my city’s more charming eat-out places and I have to say, visiting Yours Truly on a sizzling hot Friday with a close friend was the perfect way to kick-start my first weekend back in the glorious Mother City. And to simultaneously conclude […]
In June, my university classmates and I had the opportunity to visit the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, one of three such South African Holocaust Foundation-run centres in S.A. Found at 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, the Centre’s facilities include: the Pola Pasvolsky Conference Centre, a small, yet attractively laid-out Café Riteve […]
Cape Town beach-goers are blessed with a wealth of glorious beaches to choose from, starting with the picture-perfect Blouberg to the glamourous Camps Bay, but my favourite by far is the quartet of granite boulder-strewn Clifton beaches, with their frothy, nippy waves that kiss the sandy, pristine shoreline, as yachts […]
