A trip down the Garden Route is a Capetonian favorite, taking one to the popular coastal towns of Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Wilderness, Mossel Bay and more.
Now TimeOut has included it in its list of 11 ‘most breathtakingly beautiful road trips around the world’, a fantastic accolade for tourism in the Cape. Continue reading →
Sunday 13 March 2022, Day 164 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a lovely cool continuous rain day, welcome after yesterday’s 30C plus heat on the Garden Route; for a comfortable bed and good sleep at the Turbine Hotel (except for the Knysna Forest Marathon ending right outside the hotel, to loud cheering from 6h30 onwards); for the most delicious and spoiling 90 minute breakfast, encouraged to order from the Continental and the Hot Breakfast menu sections, all included in the room rate, with delightful service from Kamuelihle ; for Continue reading →
Camps Bay and Clifton 4th Beach have been announced as Blue Flag Status Beaches for the 2021/2022 season, two out of only ten Beaches 8n total in Cape Town, reports BusinessTech.
According to The Wildlife & Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA), Blue Flags will be flown at 51 beaches, five marinas and by four sustainable tourism boats around South Africa over the forthcoming 2021/22 Blue Flag season.
The Western Cape province has 36 Blue Flag Beaches, with five new beaches added, including Onrus, Struisbaai, and WIlderness. KZN has 8 Blue Flag Beaches, and the Eastern Cape has 7 such Beaches. Continue reading →
Attending a Tour Guiding course this week, one of our topics was the South African Wine Industry, taught to us by winemaker and consultant Pieter de Waal of Hermit on the Hill. Generously he gifted me the latest The South African Wine Industry Directory 2020, a publication which I have never seen. I have extracted some key information from the publication below. Continue reading →