Cape Town is a city of many things: of great wine, great food and unparallelled natural beauty. Whereas in many other cities, you have to look pretty hard to find a restaurant that ticks all three these boxes, in Cape Town they are a dime dozen. Mountain view? Take your pick. Sea view? Ditto […]
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Composition with dandelion and Reichstag, Berlin – May 2012
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When is a wine not a real wine? And no, this is not a “how long is a piece of string” type of nonsense question with no answer; nor is it a reference to the disturbing “wine-style beverages” that you sometimes find lurking in the dark corners of the supermarket wine aisles, that bear […]
Click here for a full portionGorgeous by Graham Beck – a bubbly bar in Cape Town
It had been one of those days. We had arrived in Cape Town early in the morning from London after a night of little sleep, non-functioning seat-back TVs and rather too much alcohol (refer to previous item regarding seat-back TVs!). I had purchased a data bundle at the airport to load onto my South […]
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Surf’s up – Noordhoek, Cape Town – Feb 2011
Click here for a full portionFeng Sushi Billingsgate with Silla Bjerrum
When I was at school, one of my brother’s friends used to refer to himself as “having grown up in the Bronx”. With a ponceyness well beyond his years, he was appropriating for himself the role of the poor underdog, making his way in his world of rich kids using only his razor sharp […]
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