Food at FYN was more than fine
In a city and a country with an abundance of superb restaurants, creative chefs and the imaginative incorporation of fresh local ingredients, Linda and I enjoyed one of our best South African meals...
View ArticleLeucospermum cordifolium: A macro study
Our garden is blessed with a large and beautiful leucospermum cordifolium bush, more colloquially known as a pincushion protea. Of the handful of different protea species we planted in our indigenous...
View ArticleA secular pilgrimage to Lalibela, Ethiopia
In 2017, armed with just enough soon-to-expire frequent flyer miles to snag a return ticket in business class between Cape Town and Ottawa via Addis Ababa, I fulfilled a long-standing desire to visit...
View ArticleLiving a life of luxury at Lion Sands
We knew the leopard was close before we actually saw her. We were on our first game drive at Lion Sands, one of a collection of private game reserves of varying degrees of opulence strung all along...
View ArticleTodos Santos, a little Baja California town right out of an Eagles tune
Todos Santos, a little town and artist colony on the Pacific side of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, seems exactly the sort of place the Eagles had in mind when they crafted their best-known...
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