{"id":46929,"date":"2013-08-12T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=46929"},"modified":"2013-08-12T16:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:21:02","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-12-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/wine-news\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-12-august\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 12 August"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhaleTales\"<\/a>Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 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<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Club Mykonos Langebaan is working on a number of environmentally-friendly initiatives, including\u00a0encouraging guests to use resources wisely, promoting biodiversity in its Fynbos-rich surrounds, \u00a0replacing 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\u00a0energy saving bulbs, heating the indoor swimming pool with solar power,\u00a0encouraging guests to conserve electricity by switching off electrical appliances,\u00a0switching off geysers that are not in use, recycling bins introduced, \u00a0a compost and worm programme, gardens that are\u00a099% indigenous, \u00a0a\u00a0veld herbarium with 180 specimens was collected, pressed, mounted and labelled by the resort’s horticulturist to help guests identify the vegetation, \u00a0dune rehabilitation is planned, while Fynbos\u00a0rehabilitation programme sees Fynbos removed where endangered by building work and used elsewhere on the resort. \u00a0Feral 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)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0\u00a0The Cape Winemakers Guild Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Programme is sending two of its interns to the\u00a0Centre of Vocational Training and Agricultural Promotion (CFPPA) in Beaune in Burgundy for a month next month. \u00a0Elmarie Botes (tutored at Jordan) and Heinrich Kulsen (tutored at Villiera) will be the first students to benefit from the\u00a0Western Cape Burgundy Exchange Programme. \u00a0The Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 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)<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a> \u00a0 Twitter: @WhaleCottage Portfolio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 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. * \u00a0 Club Mykonos Langebaan is working on a number of environmentally-friendly initiatives, including\u00a0encouraging guests to use resources […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[124,266,25,20,22,21,19],"tags":[20291,17569,1285,20289,20290,32378,20288,20292,4766,30,1007,19836,20293,395,16046,14327,5,2837,20294,32373,10,365],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t