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Five places to take your friends in Cape Town
If you’re from Cape Town you’ll know what it’s like to have foreign visitors or guests from other parts of South Africa come spend time with you, hoping you would show them around your beautiful city. Or even if you’re not from Cape Town but are going there as...
12 great insider tips for travelling Cape Town
Cape Town is a wonderful city. I love living in it, people love visiting it, and it's set to see more than its usual share of visitors. Here is a list of insider tips for travelling Cape Town, to beat the queues, spend less, and make your trip here more mem...
10 Hotspots in South Africa – where to go
Our hotspots in South Africa include bustling tourist attractions and low-key places that might not normally make their way onto a list, but should. All of them are inspiring and beautiful ... Cape Town Cape Town is World Design Capital 2014. This year t...
Getting around Cape Town Using Public Transport
It's cheap, relatively efficient (in terms of African time), and very much possible to get around Cape Town as a tourist using the city's available transport. Whilst hiring a car is still the best option to seeing the city - certainly the most viable as it...
Top 5 South African Cities
South Africa as a tourist destination certainly is all about giving visitors the max. There is an endless variety of attractions, activities and sights that all testify to the natural beauty and cultural heritage of a country that has weathered many a storm, b...
Constantia’s Gaia Food Market – a fresh take on food, in more ways than one
Gaia Food Market's banner is stretched between two Plein Trees on Constantia Main Road, the leaves hinting at the autumn to come as I walk the long way around the car park already swathed in leaves and take a quick scan across Alphen Common. To my right is ...
10 Unusual things to do in Cape Town – Be a tourist in your own town
10 Unusual things to do in Cape Town - There are a lot of things I've not done in Cape Town that the average tourist has. Exploring Cape Town through the eyes of a tourist can be as good as going on holiday elsewhere, a lot cheaper, and will earn you greenie p...
Chart Farm Photographs
My husband and I did something different on Sunday – we visited Chart Farm in Wynberg Park and picked our own roses! I had been earlier in the year only to find that roses are seasonal and I was a few weeks to late but taking my flowering Iceberg rose at home...
Tea at Nellies
I've got a confession to make. I've lived in Cape Town for nigh on six years and up until yesterday had still not had high tea at Nellies. This is a sacrilege. Even my friends, who recently came to stay from Durban, managed to make a detour to the Mount Ne...
Cape Town Top of the World
Cape Town came out tops in this year's Travellers Choice Destinations Awards by TripAdvisor. With a huge jump from 25th last year, Cape Town finally takes its rightful place as the favourite destination in the world as chosen by millions of travellers. C...
The Old Biscuit Mill Revisited
The Old Biscuit Mill, in Albert Rd, Woodstock, was once a run down mill and an eyesore. Courageous developers had a daring vision to create a unique space for creatives and designers who could work and showcase their creations in the same space. The idea wa...
Reddies Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway in Cape Town
Chinese food seems to be something which we all secretly like to indulge in on occasion. Reddies Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway is a fantastic little Chinese restaurant located in the Kenridge Centre on the Tygervalley road. This unpretentious restaurant serv...
Jakes on Summerley – a review
A friend from Durban was in town on business yesterday and we booked a table for five at Jakes to have a catch up dinner. I hadn’t been to Jakes for close on three years (why I don’t know; its always such a pleasure to dine there) but it was as I'd remembered...
Kalk Bay and Tribeca
Kalk Bay and Tribeca - My in-laws are visiting from KwaZulu Natal for the week and having not been to the Mother City for a number of years we thought we would do the ‘touristy’ thing on Sunday and started off with brunch in one of my favourite places; Kalk Ba...
A visit to Cape Town – the perfect whirlwind tour scenario!
A Visit to Cape Town: It's quite a daunting task, designing a perfect two-day visit for a friend-of-a-friend of mine who flies in from Johannesburg (having spent the better part of a week there from London) and has but two days to experience the Mother City, v...