DOORNHOEK: HISTORIC STAY IN A NATIONAL PARK
More and more people are discovering the wondrous mountain territory of Mountain Zebra National Park near Cradock in the Eastern Cape. Its dramatic “whaleback” rock...
Author : Mariëlle Renssen
PARADYS (KLOOF) THROUGH THE EYES OF DYLAN LEWIS
Overwhelming. Awesome. World class. These are all words that describe South African sculptor Dylan Lewis’s sculpture garden on Mulberry Farm in Paradyskloof (a very apt...
A DIFFERENT FACE OF PICASSO
I have been fortunate, during the course of our travels, to have seen many different exhibitions of Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous and...
THE ART OF CERAMICS
Earlier this year (when we lived a different life, we travelled to distant lands, and the word COVID-19 had hardly found a place in the...
WINDOWS ON THE WORLD
In South Africa, we’re into our fourth month of lockdown. It struck me one morning, just before we were granted the freedom of a few...
Blown away by Guggenheim Bilbao
Mariëlle Renssen The city of Bilbao sits at the northern edge of Spain where Basque country attaches itself to southwestern France. It wasn’t too long...
If you want remote, try out Nkasa Rupara National Park
The old Caprivi, today prosaically called the Zambezi Region, is a long stabbing finger erupting out of the top corner of Namibia, pointing due east...
Beehives and Buffalo at Addo’s Newest Camp
Today we’re going buffalo-rogue. Because that’s the name of Addo’s new(ish) — and very stylish — camp, Nyathi, directly north of Addo Rest Camp in...
Alhambra, Granada: an Assault on the Senses
We discovered, way before we set off for Spain, the challenges entailed in securing yourself an entry to the hallowed portals of the Alhambra ꟷ...
Haro, Town of Festivals & Rioja Wines
La Rioja, the fêted wine region of northern Spain, straddles the Ebro River valley in a long sprawling curve while Haro, Rioja’s wine centre, sits...