Breakfasting with Lions ~ Zarafa Camp, Botswana

  We had spent the early hours of the morning with lions, some distance away from our camp in the Selinda Reserve of Botswana. Obie, our ranger at the Zarafa Camp’s Dhow Suite, was at the helm. A tall man with great patience. That’s what […]

An Island Christmas & New Year ~ 20 Degres Sud, Mauritius

  A Tropical Christmas & New Year’s at 20 Degres Sud, in Mauritius In this quiet corner of Grand Baie in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, a few special somethings will be fuelling the festivities ~ grilled lobster, oysters, Nobu-style scallops and all the Champagne… In […]

Christmas in the Wild ~ at Esiweni Luxury Safari Lodge

  Christmas at Esiweni Lodge under the African sun   “At this time of year, when the light is extraordinary, we try to keep a touch of the French Christmas tradition. Little ones all dream of waking up on the morning of the 25th and […]

Meet Scott Dressels, Head Chef at AtholPlace Restaurant

Scott Dressels, Head Chef at AtholPlace Restaurant, Johannesburg, sums up our food philosophy as having “a seasonal approach with locally sourced produce used to create modern South African cuisine with a Asian-French twist”. But there is more to this story, Meet the man behind the delicious […]

Delaire Graff Estate Chef, Virgil Kahn’s Journey of Discovery in Asia

  Dining with Delaire Graff Estate’s Chef Virgil Kahn of Indochine Restaurant, each colour, each flavour, each texture, each ingredient on the dish is chosen with deep consideration for taste, for sustainability, for character and charm, with the special inflections from a life emerged in […]