Travel – South Africa

Saturday Snapshots #89

May 8, 2010

 So many footprints – Plettenberg Bay, December 2009 The towels are wet, the suntan lotion is finished and determined sun-worshippers catch the last rays of the day, afloat on a sea of footprints.     This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister. Click here for a full list of photographs [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #88

May 1, 2010

Cape St Francis lighthouse – April 2009 The Seal Point lighthouse in Cape St Francis, South Africa was built in 1875 (at a cost of £20,000) and commissioned on 4 July 1878. The 28-metre circular masonry tower (the tallest masonry lighthouse on the South african coast) supports a lantern house and 2nd order revolving lantern consisting [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #83

March 27, 2010

Thandi – Birds of Eden, South Africa Her name was Thandi and she was a Solomon Eclectus parrot who had been a pet but was now living in the spectacular Birds of Eden, the largest free-flight aviary in the world.  She fell in love with my father as soon as she set eyes on him and [...]

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Featherbed Nature Reserve lunch and eco-drive

February 28, 2010

If you are planning to drive South Africa's Garden Route between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, there are dozens of places where you could break your journey, and each would offer a unique beauty.  But one of the places that I always recommend that people should try to spend a few days in, is Knysna.  Although it [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #78

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Parabola – Plettenberg Bay, December 2009 Visionary Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser once wrote: “The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.” He would have loved the Beacon Island Hotel in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa.  From the outside, the hotel looks like a chunky ship setting sail from a rocky outrcop – although it appears [...]

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A South African Omnivore’s 100

February 7, 2010

Just like comparisons, lists are odious. As soon as you make a list, you set yourself up to be disagreed with, shouted down, corrected and generally berated for what you included – and for what you left out. It's a lose-lose situation! But when you are as list-obsessed as I am, you go ahead and [...]

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Roots @ the Forum Homini, Johannesburg

January 24, 2010

When I go home to South Africa, I always feel a little like I'm being pulled in ten different directions by all the places I want to go, people I need to see and things I want to do.  As my family are in Port Elizabeth, I always go there when I visit, but as for my [...]

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