Travel: Palace Pause, Or The Hermitage On Hold

Travel: Palace Pause, Or The Hermitage On Hold

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   There’s a queue. For a museum. That’s a good thing. Speaks of an appreciation of history and culture, and the value of intellect over addictions to social media and gossip. So, on...
Travel: Assignment Ass-essment, Or Bringing Up The Rear

Travel: Assignment Ass-essment, Or Bringing Up The Rear

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Visiting an island engages many parts of a tourist’s body. There is the feel on your skin of the thick-as-a-blanket humidity as you step out of a plane that came from somewhere with...
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...