For the Love of the Terrace

The minute the sun begins to dip, Capetonians go in search of the terrace. The same has been said about Paris, but the preferred time in the City of Lights is when the sun starts to show its face. The terrace is part of the art de vivre […]

How Film Can Change The World

“Using film to promote human rights and social change,” the brochure for the Tri Continental Film Festival 2015 reads. TCFF. Watch. Speak. Act. TCFF. Bringing films to the people. I was one of those people at the Tri Continental Film Festival in Cape Town this […]

The Art of The Road Trip

The art of the road trip is not merely about the car. But we’d be fibbing if we denied that it mattered at all. The car can, in truth, make or break the journey, depending on your strength of mind. The most progressed traveller is of […]

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things

The Art of Giving. Some believe it to be a matter of nature. Others, nurture. Either way, one gentleman with a keen grip on the art is South African, Floris Smith, Executive Chef and Deputy GM at Bushmans Kloof.

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Above: Tina Aponte, Innkeeper at Royal Chundu, and the women of Mushekwa Everything has a story. Every story has its characters. You might recognise the title of this story from one by Alexander McCall Smith. But these characters are something wholly unique. I’m sure McCall Smith […]