Are Diesel and fuel prices getting you down? Yes, we all get a little depressed as we see our visit to the local fuel station slowly becoming our most expensive out-lay of the month! In a moment of madness, I bought an SUV…..a modern euphemism for a ...

Hello all, yes I’m still at it with my top ten destinations, we’ve had five so far and I’ve probably left a few of you wondering why your favourite has been left out. We are spoiled for choice in our lovely region and ten just doesn’t do it, be...

Laugh…laugh and laugh some more. This is what seems to be the order of the day when our regular travelling foursome gets going on our short but regular golfing trips. No more than two nights, that’s our rule, we might fly to Cape Town, drive into ...

It’s simply not possible….not possible that a wine that is freely available on most supermarket shelves for around R25 can be the cheapest wine on a restaurants wine list at R100.00. What happened to the wine since is was bought from the supermarke...

Most owners of second homes or holiday homes are unable to utilise these all the time and an opportunity exists to earn an income whilst these homes are not in use, this income is usually sufficient to cover the annual costs of ownership and can often be ...

My mother always used to say that friends coming to stay can be compared to having fish in the house….on the first day it’s great, fresh, tasty and exciting. The second day, no problems yet, still quite acceptable. On the third day the fish starts to ...

How many words in how many articles in how many news papers, magazines and TV programs? Have you any idea, well I don’t. So…what does it mean to you and I anyway, a little more overcrowding at airports, longer queues in what is already an over crowded...

My mother used to say visitors were like fresh fish, great for the first two days, OK for the next day but that they start getting a little hard to bear on day four, as for days five and onwards, the fish or the friends….a little hard to bear! Now tr...

That’s exactly how quick it was, as quick as a flash, before I know what had happened, it had happened….only to discover a few hours later, on the last day of a wonderful holiday on the idyllic Seychelles islands, every photo taken, every attempt at r...

Advertisers are quite happy to pay huge prices per column centimetre to be in a magazine; to feature in the “wall paper” section at the back of a travel magazine. There was one leading player in the industry some years ago, there are now many, often m...

The internet is merely fifteen or so years old, if it were human it would be adolescent, not yet educated and nowhere near grown up. We do business with traditional companies that have celebrated their centenary and we think they are old…in internet ...

Have you ever experienced a serious disaster whilst on holiday? If not, it’s merely a matter of time. It has been said there are two kinds of travellers, those that have experienced a problem holiday and those that are still going to. Tasked with ide...

Perhaps the weather will be better tomorrow…..I’m bored….what can we do, the pitiful cry from your children whom you’ve taken on holiday. The whole family looking forward to a well deserved and excitingly anticipated break, the weather however doe...

As parents we’ve all heard the question “Are we there yet, Dad…” usually as one passes your favourite fuel station within 10 minutes from home at the beginning of a long car trip! You’ve worked hard all year; earned some leave; packed the car...

Being tasked with selecting the top ten travel destinations in Southern Africa might sound easy. This is however simply not the case. Innumerable questions come to mind, a readers home location might make the trip too expensive; an adventure trail or 4x4 ...