We all fear that having booked a wonderful holiday we will end up spending it in the rain. Now, I will not pretend otherwise, it does rain in Africa, often not as much as the Continent needs, but like everywhere ...
One of my favourite things to do is walking in the countryside with our Jack Russell, Molly. Not just the daily walks around our village, but those that we do over the weekend, when we go a little further afield ...
I was lucky enough to find myself heading up to Garonga in September. It had been (far too many) years since my last visit – which was before the addition of sister camp, Little Garonga – so I was very ...
For those of you who are keeping up with our in-depth family holiday around KZN in South Africa, then welcome to the next instalment! The next stage of our itinerary was, in my mind, the one that I was a ...
In my last blog I visited Glen Avon and experienced the ease of which you could explore Boulders Beach and Cape Point. From Boulders we travelled back along the coast road, around False Bay. Here the scenery was wild, rugged ...
We arrived into glorious sunshine - not bad for winter in Cape Town! Table Mountain was visible in all her glory and the Cape Town suburbs were looking lush.
It was a very easy and quick journey from the airport to Glen Avon Lodge - a mere 25 minutes and we were turning off of Strawberry Lane in Constantia and buzzing on the intercom to enter the courtyard at the lodge.
Claire recently took a small group of hand-picked British journalists and bloggers around South Africa, in conjunction with South African Airways and South African Tourism UK, to rediscover some of its tourism icons...
On hearing I would be taking a small group of journalists to South Africa for a week … I was torn. Torn between being totally excited to be staying in some of the country’s top boutique hotels or the simple pleasure of getting a rare full night’s sleep. As mum to 3 boys (including 2 year old twins!) a full night’s sleep sounded like a major highlight.
The debate continues that the SAT stats are not accurate, is valid, but not new. I remember attending a conference in Johannesburg in 1994 when this subject was discussed in detail and a speaker from the Caribbean explained that people visiting more than one island would be counted more than once – a similar problem to the one we have always had in South Africa.