by Marion Ellis | Jan 12, 2018 | Food & Wine Matters, Insightful Matters
While some of you may be experiencing extreme cold snowy blizzards (sorry), the Western Cape is basking in another glorious summer with balmy evenings and late sunsets to enjoy food and wine in South Africa (not sorry). Speaking of glorious food, in the...
by Marion Ellis | Dec 3, 2017 | Food & Wine Matters, Insightful Matters
It’s a coastal gem in the shadow of an iconic mountain, where fine wine flows and penguins roam. It could only be Cape Town! After a poll of 90,000 readers in the 2017 Telegraph Travel Awards, the South African city was victorious, beating Vancouver and Tokyo to the...
by Marion Ellis | Nov 10, 2017 | Art & Design Matters, Custom Tours, Insightful Matters
You don’t have to believe us, but the award for the world’s Best Female Chef at The Best Chef Lady Awards (held in Warsaw) has just been received by chef Chantel Dartnall of Restaurant Mosaic in Pretoria (South Africa). Launched in Poland in 2016,...
by Marion Ellis | Sep 22, 2017 | Art & Design Matters, Heritage & History Matters, Insightful Matters
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is the new, groundbreaking museum in Cape Town, South Africa. And first major museum in Africa dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora. Originally constructed in 1920, this...
by Marion Ellis | Sep 11, 2017 | Green Matters, Insightful Matters
With Spring bursting out of it’s little buds in the Southern Hemisphere, it is particularly joyous in Africa with the stark landscape contrasts. We most certainly have a celebration of the end of hibernation when the landscape erupts with wild flowers in every...
