Want to live like a local in Istanbul? Take care of your neighbourhood cats. We should have added ‘cat food’ to the Istanbul shopping list. Because if you’re planning on settling into the city for a while, the first thing you need to do is to adopt a neighbourhood cat or four and leave food out … Read more
Our lovely home in Camps Bay in Cape Town reminds us of the beauty of being by the beach. Literally one block from the sand, it’s a five-minute stroll to dip our toes into the sea. Bliss. We may have had bad luck with the weather on our grand tour so far this year – sometimes it feels as if … Read more
On a bright sunny weekend in Buenos Aires, right up there with leisurely strolling the elegant cobblestone streets, browsing one of the Argentine capital’s many buzzy flea markets and a lazy afternoon sipping yerba mate with the locals in one of Palermo’s sprawling parks, is, for us, a visit to La Feria de Matadores on … Read more
One of the first things we do when we arrive in a place is head to the local market and we make a habit of shopping at food markets over supermarkets whenever and wherever we can. We also seek out local craft markets, flea markets, antique markets and so on, and Buenos Aires is home … Read more
We arrived in Buenos Aires on a glorious spring Sunday. While the sky was a perfectly clear cobalt blue and the sun was well and truly out, there was still a wintery crispness to the air in the shade and a clarity to the light that said winter hadn’t gone yet. We decided to make … Read more