When it comes to wonderful beaches around the world, Diani Beach, south of Mombasa, didn’t immediately spring to mind. Yet as we quickly discovered during our two weeks in Kenya, the place is popular with travellers looking to top or tail their safari trip with some sun, sea and sand. Being Australian, I’m pretty opinionated … Read more
It was reassuring to have someone from our holiday rental in Diani Beach, Kenya, greet us at Mombasa airport after dealing with the unsympathetic staff of Kenyan Airways, which couldn’t manage to get our bags on the same flight as us on the first leg of our journey from South Africa. Less reassuring was the … Read more
Having grown up in Australia during South Africa’s apartheid era, I became aware of what was going on there through the South African rugby team’s tour of Australia in 1971. My reflections on Cape Town after visiting South Africa are quite complex and conflicted, to be honest. I can remember, even as a small boy, … Read more
Wine tasting on a wine tour of Cape Winelands was high on our list of things to do in Cape Town, South Africa. Three Western Cape wine-making destinations, Paarl, Franschhoek and Stellenbosch are easily visited on a day trip from Cape Town. But while a day-long wine tour gave us a taste of the Cape … Read more
This was our first visit to Cape Town so we didn’t have any expectations about what things cost or the cost of living generally, so we were surprised to find it fairly affordable, especially when it came to grocery shopping. Here’s our Cape Town shopping list for visitors staying in a holiday rental. While the cost … Read more