The Passage Hotel Basel – find your contemporary zen
There’s nowhere quite like Basel, where a thriving contemporary arts scene peacefully coexists with one of Europe’s great historical hubs. In fact the two compliment…
Best Things to Do in Basel – Land of the Beer Basilisk
There aren’t many places where you can still use a 17th Century map to navigate your way around. Then again there aren’t many places…
The Map room in Franschhoek – a bolt hole for explorers
Clint Eastwood and maps. Two of my most favourite things and both of them right here at the Map Room in Franschhoek. Had the…
No trials or tribulations at London’s Apex Temple Court Hotel
I’m a pretty confident traveller. I think nothing of tackling the bright lights of major foreign cities and feel quite at home strutting about…
Blyde River – the most spectacular canyon you’ve never heard of
I’d never even heard of the Blyde River Canyon, let alone realised it was in fact the third largest in the world, after the Grand…
Dar Amane – Graskop’s hidden heaven
Sometimes a place can bring me to tears. It’s happened on a few occasions and taken me a bit by surprise considering I’m not…
Microlighting the Blyde River Canyon
There was one experience, above all others, that I was looking forward to the most on our latest South Africa trip. It wasn’t the…
Afternoon Tea at One Aldwych – it’s not just a girl thing
More at home half way up a mountain in his waterproofs cooking boil in the bag whilst huddled over a camp stove, hubbie was…
I Rocha – an Atlas Mountains guest house
I was floating in the pool, my vision full of rocky desert peaks glowing in the sun against an achingly beautiful blue sky. If the…
A vintage day out on the Franschhoek Wine Tram
I’m getting ripened berries. I’m getting tones of dark chocolate. I’m getting flavours of mature oak. Actually I wasn’t getting anything as I had…
Ulusaba – where everybody knows your name
Ulusaba literally means ‘place of little fear’ in the local Shangaan language, and whilst this is certainly true, after our visit we like to…
Ulusaba’s BIG Five – and I’m not talking about animals
Licking the chocolate sauce from around his chops and swigging the remnants of his champagne, Hubbie scampered back to our bush vehicle and deposited…