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Silo History

The grain silo was the tallest building in sub-Saharan Africa at 57m when it opened in August 1924. The building has 2 parts - the elevator tower where the Silo hotel is located and the storage towers themselves. The hotel is above Zeitz MOCAA and occupies...

KaDeWe

This historic Berlin department store, on the edge of Berlin's western side, was opened in 1907 by Adolf Jandorf - it was known as Kaufhaus des Westens, more popularly, KaDeWe. It carries a enormous product selection of high quality goods, some 380000, and is t...

The Runner Duck Parade - this is a must-do if you have a bit of extra time in the Cape - watching those ducks is poetry in motion and happens 3 times a day, Monday to Sunday.They are the reason that Vergenoegd proudly carries the WWF biodiversity certification.

Since 19...

– is a restaurant steeped in South Africa’s rich, multicultural history

The Bo-Kaap area has a unique character – signified by brightly coloured, residential, semi-detached homes on the neck of Signal Hill, above the Central business district of Cape Town.  It is also o...

Breakfast has become a "thing", possibly an obsession, because I never used to consider it important.   Friends of mine had been raving about their stays at the Oyster Box and I indulged them each time and thought - yeah, yeah - heard the hype before - what's so differ...

Bartholomeus Klip

Finally, after sitting on my country hotel wish-list for 9 years, we made it to Bartholomeus Klip Farmhouse in December 2017. It cracked the list because of the salivating food reports I'd remembered reading over the years. It is one of the best-kept s...

The Park House of Events on 7 in Hyde Park Corner hosted my equivalent of Atlantis - The Hyde Park Bubbles Festival.  

The first friendly familiar face I saw was Karen Loubser's from Silverthorn and then I spied Gerrit and Albert from GM&AHRENS. I also noticed Dainty Be...

The décor is superlative – everyone knows that by now - and it is one of the most exquisite restaurants in Johannesburg with a view to match the décor in Rosebank’s Keyes Art Mile.   My best explanation would be that it’s a place where food and theatre combine to make...

THE HOUSE OF GM&AHRENS

Going back to 2017 and to the MCC/champagne entrants, I badly wanted to attend the Franschhoek Cap Classique and Champagne festival but couldn't fit it into my pre-holiday count-down.  I did find time to list the bubbles I hadn't tasted or heard o...

This clock is a show stopper, but so is the tree-like sculpture at the entrance to this modern and contemporary wine estate, where the combination of glass, steel and stone works well. Tokara has pole position at the top of the Helshoogte Pass, on the Simonsberg mounta...