What a treat it was! Yesterday I went to La Mouette for lunch. Finally!! The place looks beautiful, the service was friendly and the food was delish. I should have only just ordered a starter but I couldn’t really help myself and had to order main course and desert too. Starter was still the best: [...]
Last Tuesday I was invited to join a day of fun in the sun organized by Land of Legends from KwaZulu-Natal. I only heard about it last minute so I had no idea what the day was going to bring, except some delicious food and wine. We were all welcomed at the lovely Vineyard Hotel [...]
To escape from the busy city life we decided to take a day off and join a safari @ Inverdoorn Game resort, only 2.30 hours drive from Cape Town. Getting there at 10 o´clock is just enough time to enjoy a nice cup of coffee or tea until the safari starts. Before we actually went [...]
Porcupine Hills Guest Farm – between Franschhoek and Hermanus Weddings in South Africa are always a great excuse to go away for the weekend. They never happen next door and you don’t want to end up driving in the middle of the night. A dear friend of mind go married last weekend in the Elgin [...]
Going up the long drive way is definitely impressive when you enter this spectacular wine estate. The WoW Factor is def there!! Check www.delaire.co.za for stunning pics. Somehow I forgot to take pictures of the estate, probably because I was in awe!! The restaurant is beautifully decorated with African arts and features a MASSIVE fire [...]
Jeez!! What a match and I was in the stadium AGAIN, here in Cape Town, just down the road from where I live! I can’t believe it how much I love this soccer world cup and how much I am involved in all of it. Of course, to start with, it helps that I’m Dutch [...]
Just got back from dinner at Maze. Was on my list for quite some time. Had tried Nobu already last year which was outstanding and now me and my friend, Paul, from Holland ended up in the One&Only before he had to get back onto the plane to Hollland. I must say, when walking into [...]
Finally I made it to this stunning place that has been on my to-do list for at least the last year. It’s not a place to go to if you a last-minute weekend-planner because it’s fully booked all the time. So I was pleasantly surprised when I phoned last Monday and managed to get in [...]
This country just doesn’t stop to surprise me with all the beautiful spots to be visited. To be honest, I only had visited Vergelegen in Somerset West and was looking forward to visit a new winey. Well, not really new, but new to me. We already heard that the write-ups of the restaurant were very [...]
The newly build Cape Town stadium came alive yesterday with a deafening sound of thousands of vuvezala’s. No announcement could be heard but who cares about announcements anyway? The heat of the sun was something I worried about more. Aj, I was SO hot. Box 119, not a good one for a match in Summer [...]
Morning! I just come back from a short walk on Hout Bay Beach. How I love this place! It MUST be one of the most beautiful places in the world and definitely in South Africa. The lovely bay with the breathtaking Chapmans Peak Drive on one side and the quaint harbour on the other side.The [...]
Last weekend was one of those STUNNING Cape Town weekends where you just want to be outside and spend as much time in nature as possible. Luckily we had organised to go hiking in the Cape of Good Hope area, about an hours drive from Cape Town city centre. Boy, how blessed are we to [...]
11 December 2009 Carne Restaurant in Keerom Street, CBD, Cape Town. WoW!! For the REAL carnivore what a treat! Everything was perfect, venue, menu, waiter (we love you Mike, we do!), except…..1 little thing, the seats of the chairs were quite small. Now, well, I’m not exactly a size petite but I think more people [...]
One of the beautiful perks of having a travel company, is being invited by all these wonderful establishments to come and stay when you give them guests. Because I made a big booking for during the World Cup at Constantia Uitsig I was invited to come and stay last week for dinner, bed & breakfast. [...]
Only opened a few months ago so it was time to go and have a bite to eat to check it out. Reading on the web I found different reviews, from fantastic to horrible so let’s see what we have to say. I like going to places that are not so obvious. So to go [...]
A blog doesn’t always need to be about something hip, hot and happening, right? In my blog I just like to share all these special places in South Africa and mostly in Cape Town, where I like to spend time and that are special for me. One of my favorite spots to go to is [...]
Yesterday evening I was invited to take part in an experience, organised by Coffeebean Routes in Cape Town. Coffeebean Routes proudly organises unique experiences, such as a Reggae tour or Story-telling tour in order for tourists to meet and interact with interesting characters in Cape Town and the suburbs. Our guide Jacques first brought us [...]
Last Saturday we already got a little taste of what’s summer is going to be like. It was HOT, blue skies, no wind and just absolutely beautiful. So time to get out and get onto that beautiful mountain of ours. You start from the parking lot at Rhodes Memorial. You COULD have a GREAT breakfast [...]
And what a lovely day it was! Together with my friend and her mom we first drove to Riebeeck Kasteel. The weather didn’t look great for the day but road trips in South Africa, I simply LOVE! Afterwards we heard that Cape Town had been quite horrible, pouring down, so we were happy we left [...]
This morning my friend Liz and I were actually on our way to the Helderberg Nature Reserve in Somerset Wes, when we found out that THAT hike was not happening. Ok, quickly made a new plan to hike a bit closer and went to the Silvermine Nature Reserve. From Cape Town you take the M3 [...]
Extraordinary Travel is SATIB Certified.
Travel safe in the knowledge that you are covered in the case of unexpected emergency incidents.
Translator
Join us on…
