It’s Sping in London. The Chelsea Flower Show is in bloom and the rest of the borough is showing off its green thumb. One hotel is pulling out all the stops to make this week a bumper crop of herbaceous delights. Celeb florist Larry Walshe has turned their scaffolding-engulfed front door into a sylvan Scylla. Tempestuously wild ivy […]
Although Table Mountain is one of the great wonders of the world and any visitor to Cape Town is guaranteed to have it at the top of their list, I would have been just as happy to sit at its base gazing at its wonder from below. Unfortunately for vertigo-challenged me, that’s not exactly how it […]
Emily Ray was my second internet date, ever. The Cypriot had been my first. How would Date 2 compare? It couldn’t possibly be as good as Date 1, could it? Both of us were heading to Blogstock and we had been set up in a Facebook Group. Neither of us really knew where we were going or what […]
Everything was set up for me to succeed when making sushi for the first time at UNI in London. I had the hat, the apron, the mat, the rice, the seaweed and most importantly, the fish…but I know now that I will never have what it takes to be called itamae. Gaining the title of Master Sushi […]
I may be watching too much Downton Abbey, but I could’ve bet money that I heard the conductor scream, “All Aboard” as we headed down the platform of Pretoria’s central station. Stepping back in time to the days when train travel was the only way to go is why you take the Blue Train in the first […]
I knew it wouldn’t be long before I felt the same soil beneath my feet that Isak Dinesen had so many years before. No, I don’t have a farm and I was nowhere near her Ngong Hills in Kenya, but the people and the warmth that emanated from them made me fall in love as […]