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DON’T MISS DON’T MISS

One Day Jewellery Master Class with Joanna Hardy at Strauss & Co, the brilliant Youth Music Festival, Cape Town Tourism chats, Equinox Spa recharge programme, Italian Cuisine World Summit and a ‘Chef in my Kitchen’. 

COLOMBIA: CARTAGENA! A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

By Jeremy Flax

London based Jeremy Flax and his wife, Chrissie, visited Colombia and then travelled on to Argentina in the first of a challenging and riveting two part series. 

THE LOST CITY OF COLOMBIA! A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

By Jeremy Flax

We arrived in Taganga without much planned, but we knew we might be there for a while. Taganga is a small fishing village closest to the North-Eastern city of Santa Marta, the first town ever settled in Colombia, about 5 hours on the bus along the Caribbean coast from Cartagena. It’s very much a traveler get together point in Colombia… for various reasons. 

LONDON LETTER

With Astrid Michelow

Astrid Michelow vividly and philosophically puts us in touch with London’s winter of discontent, only diverted by illuminating visits to some of London’s most illustrious galleries and exhibitions.

IN THE NEWS! IN THE NEW! IN THE NEWS!

Catch up on new appointment to the luxury travel group Cullinan Holdings and Red Carnation Hotels. Diarise Fraser Valley, Canada, celebration 150 Years. Under the stars with Peter Sarstedt in the Kalahari. Planet Champagne & Bar winter warmers. Constantia Glen debuts in London.

ST PANCRAS A FIVE STAR STATION

With Nancy V. Richards

Champagne, art, a direct line to Paris and a multi-million pound revamp puts St Pancras on a different style platform.

‘OH TO BE IN ENGLAND’  Part One 

By Leslie Back

"We adore England, says Leslie Back reminiscing."The elegance and eccentricity of the English, their wit and their whimsy. We were overjoyed to be back in this ‘green and pleasant land’." 

VON GEUSAU FINE CHOCOLATES

UNDER AN AFRICAN SKY

Greyton, an enchanting village set in the heart of the Overberg, is the home of Chocolaterie Von Geusau.

A DATE IN BAHRAIN

Part Two

With Melissa van Maasdyk

"Step back in time… says Melissa, "Bahrain’s history goes back to way before the birth of Islam, which dates to the Christian year 622AD (when Muhammed fled from Mecca to Medina). There is evidence of settlement on the island from as far back at 5000BC, and it was recently discovered that this was the seat of the famous empire of Dilmun (circa 3000B)."

LONDON CALLING

By Melissa van Maasdyk

There was a time when I questioned Samuel Johnson’s view that ‘to be tired of London is to be tired of life’. This was a man who wrote dictionaries for a living after all. But today I couldn’t agree more. Here are some of the reasons why London has become my favourite city in the world.