Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Sasol customers will be able to fill up on Burger King burgers from the end of this year, when the fast food outlet opens up at Sasol petrol stations.
* Club Mykonos Langebaan is working on a number of environmentally-friendly initiatives, including encouraging guests to use resources wisely, promoting biodiversity in its Fynbos-rich surrounds, replacing shower heads with new eco-friendly ones, putting timers on sprinklers, encouraging guests to hang up towels if they do not require them to be cleaned, using energy saving bulbs, heating the indoor swimming pool with solar power, encouraging guests to conserve electricity by switching off electrical appliances, switching off geysers that are not in use, recycling bins introduced, a compost and worm programme, gardens that are 99% indigenous, a veld herbarium with 180 specimens was collected, pressed, mounted and labelled by the resort’s horticulturist to help guests identify the vegetation, dune rehabilitation is planned, while Fynbos rehabilitation programme sees Fynbos removed where endangered by building work and used elsewhere on the resort. Feral cats are being managed and kept in good health by a controlled feeding programme, and sterilized and returned to the resort to aid in the control of rats, mice and snakes. (via media release from Jupiter Drawing Room)
* The Cape Winemakers Guild Protégé Programme is sending two of its interns to the Centre of Vocational Training and Agricultural Promotion (CFPPA) in Beaune in Burgundy for a month next month. Elmarie Botes (tutored at Jordan) and Heinrich Kulsen (tutored at Villiera) will be the first students to benefit from the Western Cape Burgundy Exchange Programme. The Protégé Programme is a three year programme to help transform the wine industry by developing promising individuals to become winemakers of excellence. (via media release from GC Communications)
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage Portfolio
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