Travel: Confirmed Identity, Or En Route To Empathy

Travel: Confirmed Identity, Or En Route To Empathy

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   It’s a routine stopover for us, pulling off the highway to the coast and parking outside a rural supermarket selling sweets, braai meat and local artisanal bits and pieces of all...
Travel: Sweetness Of The Swiss, Or A Rich Chocolate History

Travel: Sweetness Of The Swiss, Or A Rich Chocolate History

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]By GREG VORSTER   Elsewhere on this site, a trip to Switzerland nearly ended in disaster no thanks to a milkshake and the mistaken notion that placing it in carry-on luggage was a good idea. Treats have...
Opinion: Home Is Where The Five-Star Is

Opinion: Home Is Where The Five-Star Is

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Ah, luxury. It’s always pretty special when you open the door to a lavish hotel suite and are greeted for the first time by a fresh, pristine layout, furnished with the very latest in...
Travel: Tea And Sympathy (For Bears), Or To Coin A Phase

Travel: Tea And Sympathy (For Bears), Or To Coin A Phase

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   The hotel we’re in for the junket is lovely. But it’s miles from anywhere, a round of golf costs five hundred million dirham and there’s only so much of the course you can walk around,...