Great Whites or Great Wides
We went surfing the other day, in the notorious area of Muizenberg. It’s generally not the Great Whites that you have to watch out for there, it’s the Great Wides, the boards and the tourists who assume that they own the beach.
My other, much braver, half had decided he wanted to learn to surf – [...]
Fork Restaurant
There is a certain inconsistency in my personality that allows me to spend R400 on a dinner without breaking a sweat, while at the same time balking at the idea of spending the same amount on a pair of boots or a handbag. In all fairness it should be the other way around – after [...]
When you’re broke in Cape Town
It’s been said that when you want a list of things to do in Cape Town you’re faced with things like “go for a shark dive in a cage†or “shop at a really elitist mall†or “check out the wine farmsâ€. Let’s face it, as far as cities go, this one kind of chows [...]
Accommodation goes green!
Everyone is talking about it… almost everyone is coming to see it. The 2010 Soccer World Cup hosted by South Africa is causing a serious headache for the Cape Town accommodation industry. How on earth are we going to house all of these foreign (and some local) people, and how are we going to do [...]
Cape Town tours: a great day out.
Cape Town is a vibrant city, which is full of colour, history and of course its diverse population. The best way to see the city bowl and some of the suburbs is the hop-on hop-off bus that goes all the way to Kirstenbosch Botanical gardens and takes you to the Cable-Car station for the Table [...]
Cape Town tours on the up
Cape Town’s tourist industry has always been a vibrant economy-booster. With Cape Town tours and sightseeing trips making up a big part of the tourist’s to-do list, the industry must protect the image of Cape Town as a fun, vibrant and safe place to visit. However, we all know that the economy is said to [...]
So, you want to see lions kill a zebra and pretend you’re the king hunter by getting a close-up photo. But which Safari tours enable you to see the animals, guaranteed, and not just some lame buck and a few rocks that look like rhinos, but aren’t?
Well, wrong attitude, for a start. Wrong actions as [...]







