On Friday radio station Kfm announced the winners in each of the 30 categories in its 2022 Best of the Cape Awards.
The winners are from Cape Town as well as from other areas in the province. Kfm introduced the competition in 2021 for the first time. Continue reading →
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 →
Saturday 12 March 2022, Day 163 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a smooth flowing day; for a good breakfast at Botlierskop, with a beautiful yellow free range egg cheese omelet; for a careful drive to Knysna, with so many speed cameras and traps; for checking in at Turbine Hotel on Thesen Hotel, but our rooms taking another two hours to become available, so we went on a little walk on the island, the shops not much different to what I remember from a last visit at least 5 years ago; for bumping into Markus Färbinger, former owner of Ile de Pain Continue reading →