Monday and Tuesday 20th & 21st of May I’m a list girl. I feel like you either are, or you aren’t, and if you are, you will know immediately when asked the question. Lists create organisation. Organisation creates calm. Calm creates happiness. Simple! Checklists are certainly a handy part of preparation for travel for me….
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Kruger
Friday/Saturday/Sunday 17th-19th May 2024 Who hasn’t heard of Kruger National Park, the largest national park in Africa and the oldest in South Africa? The iconic wilderness region is situated in the north-eastern part of South Africa, covering around two million hectares, making it a little smaller than Belgium! When well-known author, and friend of Dave’s,…
C’ya CT
Thursday 16th May 2024 Our last day in Cape Town was a sobering but great one. We started the day by making our own simple breakfast in the apartment with groceries that we received the night before, delivered with our pizza dinner. Toast with butter; yoghurt, passionfruit and banana and a hot cup of tea…
Wine, Wine and more Wine 🍷
WEDNESDAY 15th MAY 2024 Cape Town is well-known for a few things, not least of all its wine. Who could come here and not explore its most well-known wine region, around Stellenbosch, about 50km north-east of Cape Town? Quite a few people had recommended the Hop-On Hop-off Wine Tram as a fun way to see…
Once is good, twice is better!
TUESDAY 14th MAY 2024 After seeing two of the seven wonders of nature across three days (Victoria Falls and Table Mountain), it was time to settle down to some serious foodie travel activities. You may have read in my blog last week, that when we were in Mauritius 10 days ago, I was feeling unwell,…
Exploring Cape Town (CT)
Monday 13th May Waking up and looking out to a view of Table Mountain and Lions Head was an amazing way to start our few days in Cape Town! Sunrise was just after 7am, and the light as it rose was simply stunning and it was hard to take my eyes off it and get…
Shamwaris
Friday 10th to Sunday 12th May 2024 Dave speaks Shona. He learnt it when he lived in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in the late 70s/early 80s. Over the last few days, he has been refreshing his skills and I cannot tell you the number of times I have seen the look of surprise, followed by a…
Safari Time!
Thursday 9th May 2024 By the end of Thursday, I definitely had all three! I think I have managed on this holiday to severely overuse the word ‘wow’ and Thursday was one hell of a ‘wow’ day. So far everything on this trip has gone exactly to time. Knowing that was the case, we were…
‘Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens’
These are as few of my favourite things. Julie Andrews listed them off as Maria in the Sound of Music. I’m sorry that this post has been a few days coming. Between very bad internet, being super busy and still not feeling great, it has been a challenge to get the laptop open and get…
Au Revoir Mauritius 🇲🇺
Monday 6th May, 2024 Our last day in Mauritius started slowly and deliciously again, with breakfast back at the large table under the gorgeous frangipane tree, overlooking the bay. Today’s spread included little individual mushroom frittatas, freshly sliced ruby red ripe tomatoes, toast, bananas, apricot yoghurt and a super large and delicious passionfruit, cut in…
Choices, choices
You think you want options. But do you, really? Making choices is such an essential element of planning a holiday. Number of days per location is a critical one for me. High-end hotel with all the jazz; or mediocre, with enough comfort to sleep well; or basic and brutal, but low cost enough to then…
“The best laid plans of mice and men”
Apparently, things don’t always go to plan. Which is a shame really, considering how much I love to plan. When I first became a chef, nearly 35 years ago, it was the thing that totally made sense to me and drew me to the commercial kitchen. The basics I learned as an apprentice was all…
Amazing Africa Awaits!
I am so so so excited. In two weeks from today we are heading for my first ever visit to Africa! We will be meeting up with Will and Emma there and visiting South Africa, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia over three weeks. We have lots of exciting plans, but truth be known, if I…
Lovely London
LONDON: Tuesday 28th August – Friday 1st September Tuesday How wonderful is London! Oozing with history, culture, gorgeous gardens and terrific food… what’s not to love! I remember when England had a terrible food reputation. English food was known to be stodgy, tasteless and boring. But no more! The UK in general seems to have…
Unexpected Edinburgh
Friday to Sunday 25 to 27 August It wasn’t on our trip plan (carefully planned and curated over the months preceding our holiday), but we are learning to be more spontaneous and when Will suggested we spend a few days in Scotland on our way back to the UK from Iceland, we couldn’t resist. Will…
The Land of Fire and Ice
ICELAND: 22-25 August 2023 12 months ago, Iceland was not on my list of ‘must visit’ places. When, early in our holiday planning, Dave suggested we visit Iceland on this trip, I was not jumping at the bit. Iceland sounded cold, distant and boring. How wrong could I have been! It’s a good lesson for…