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I spent an inordinate portion of my youth messing about on mountains. We worked out by trial and error what foods were the lightest yet...
I’ve been around the block a few times, in just about every sense of the phrase. So much so that some people say my epitaph...
At a tasting some years ago, a wine luminary said to a group of avid admirers: “Wine farming is such a gamble it’s a wonder...
This is the time when snow lies scattered across the high ground of South Africa – like clothes strewn across the floor of a teenager’s...
The Van der Stel family was among the fabulously rich and well connected of Amsterdam throughout the 17th century, dominating the silk trade there. In...
In the early 1980s I was a mad-keen mountaineer and one winter saw me huddled in a tent below the Tafelberg with snow falling. I...
On moving to the Cape around three decades ago, having explored most of the mountains of the region, what next gave me unlimited pleasure was...
After a long and typically boozy lunch at the Strandloper beach restaurant in Langebaan, you would be forgiven for thinking you had woken up in...
This missive is dedicated to the connection between some curious unfinished flyovers and a glass of wine. Continuing the musical theme from my first missive,...
Although Steenberg is the oldest private estate in the Constantia valley, having been granted to Free Burghers Hans and Catharina Ras, Groot Constantia is really...
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