Category: Travel

My evening at Richard’s Supper Stage has skyrocketed to my number one dinner theatre experience. I’ve seen several shows, but none quite like “Kaapse Stories from the Mother City”. From the moment I stepped up the staircase, appropriately bearing the names of District 6 streets, to the last clap of the standing ovation, I was […]

Mazes are the sneaky cousin of the more well-known labyrinths, and it is a maze which will trick you and leave you wandering for a goodly amount of time, should you take a wrong turn. Labyrinths on the other hand, have only one path in, and one path out again. In Europe, mazes have been […]

The annual Simon’s Town Penguin Festival is taking place this Saturday, 13 October 2012, in celebration of the delightful tuxedoed birds that have become such an icon of Simon’s Town. The Penguin Festival coincides with African Penguin Awareness Day and is hosted by SANCCOB, one of South Africa’s leading marine NPOs, and South African National […]

UPDATE The stratosphere jump happened on Sunday 14th October, 2012 in Roswell, New Mexico and was a roaring success by all accounts. Congratulations to the hard-working behind-the-scenes Red Bull Stratos team, and of course to Felix Baumgartner – who now holds the world record for completing the highest jump in the world, as well as […]

Nature is a wondrous thing. It can be scary or fascinating, beautiful or ugly, and throughout the centuries has certainly kept mankind on its toes.  Many of the phenomena have, throughout history, been worshiped, feared, or thought of as signs portending disaster or salvation. Modern science helps us understand how and why they occur, but […]

We all know South Africa’s “Big 5”: the elephant, lion, buffo, leopard, and rhino. Entire vacations are planned for the sole purpose of spotting them. But I would like to introduce you to the lesser known “Small 5”, whose names relate to their bigger counterparts.   The Elephant Shrew Getting its name from the elongated […]

At some point in our lives (ok, a lot of points in our lives) we ladies have that clichéd Cinderella fantasy. A damsel in distress is rescued by a handsome prince who risks his life for her. He instantly falls in love with her captivating beauty (inside and out) and makes her his princess. And, […]

We humans tend to live a very routine lifestyle. Tedious, repetitive, predictable – we know what we are going to be doing every day of the week. We forget that spontaneity is important. There is no good reason why “everyday” events such as simply riding an elevator cannot provide an exciting thrill. So if you’re […]