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  • THERE ARE MORE THAN FIVE STARS AT OCEANA

    Approximately nine kilometers past Port Alfred, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, there is an experience. The experience is called Oceana Beach and Wildlife Reserve. I say it is an experience due to its location, comfort, excellent food, wildlife, but particularly due to its most friendly and exceptional team who…

  • Grace and Fineness

    Grace and Fineness

    “There’s no pleasure on earth that’s worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People’s Home, Weston-Super-Mare” – John Mortimer 1923-2009 ‘Rumpole’s Last Case’ (1987) I make no apology for loving to explore the finer things in life if they…

  • A Palace Like No Other

    The Palace at the Lost City, Sun City, North West Province in South Africa is a hotel where you go for indulgence and pampering with some baboons and monkeys thrown in for good measure. A fortieth birthday present for my best friend from Dublin, who had been pining for years…

  • Back to the Bush

    A mere 50 minute flight from OR Tambo International, or just on a five hour drive, to Kruger Park Lodge, Hazyview, Mpumulanga, transports you from the concrete jungle of Johannesburg to a wild spot that simply takes your breath away. The bush creates its own life and love. We love…

  • A poem for the end of the world

    via A poem for the end of the world   A powerful poem so worth sharing.

  • Nothing Wrong with a Gorgeous Puffy Pie

    Nothing Wrong with a Gorgeous Puffy Pie

    Who doesn’t eat pie? A pie is a pie is pie, but then there is THE pie at Olive and Plates, Exclusive Books, Hyde Park. Trying out Olive and Plates has been on my hit list for a few years, so when they replaced the not so popular, ultra swanky…

  • Fine Dining on the Rocks

    Fine Dining on the Rocks

    My first time at Harbour House, Kalk Bay, Western Cape, was over ten years ago. The position is what enables you to fall in love with this restaurant. Set up and aside from the popular Kalk Bay Fishing Harbour, the view is to dine for and the fish, quite obviously…