MOUNT NELSON HOTEL

IN CARING HANDS

It’s no surprise that Managing Director of Mount Nelson Hotel and Orient-Express Hotels Africa, Nick Seewer’s globe-trotting youth inspired him to follow a career in the travel and hospitality business. 

SEE! EUROPE - RETOUR À PARIS

MEMORIES & MEANDERINGS 
Part Three with Leslie Back

We were in Paris. This city that draws us back again and again. How we love it and how very quickly it envelops us in its magic. 

By Request! HIGH TEA AT MONTEREY

The Perfect Treat! 

Undoubtedly the most convivial time of the day in the grand country houses of dazzling Edwardian England was High Tea! 

SEE! THE POWER OF SUNSHINE & WATER - Part One

By Mary-Ann Shearer

Both sunlight and water contribute significantly to countless aspects of well-being, so let’s take a closer look at these often overlooked but vitally important health boosters. 

THE POWER OF SUNSHINE AND WATER - Part Two

By Mary-Ann Shearer

Why do you need sunshine and water to help you take control of your life? Well, as strange as it may seem, neither your body nor your mind would be able to function at optimal levels without them. 

JEWELS OF INDIA

By Cinda Hunter

Cinda Hunter travels to the magical rose "Pink City" of Jaipur and onto Darjeeling in the far north to the Sikkim region at the foothills of the Himalayas. We join her on her breathtaking journey. 

LAZY DAYS
Contemporary Country-Style Cooking

By Phillippa Cheifitz

In Phillippa’s latest book, we are taken on a lazy meander up the West Coast to her family beach house at Paternoster, a retreat where there is time to cook honest delicious food, the kind we all love and don’t have the time for during busy weeks. 

CHARLOTTE HUNT

An evergreen cook for all seasons!

After many years of lauding and applauding the cult of ‘the chef’, it does appear timely that there is the return of ‘the cook’. The undervalued angel of the kitchen that cooks divinely and whose dishes, prepared with loving hands, we wish to return to again and again. Charlotte Hunt is one of those angels! 

HONEYMOONS

AUTUMN IDYLL AT THE PALACE

Serene, joyous, supremely carefree days. Spend them together beside the sea, waterski on azure waters, canter along the beach, take wonderful walks deep in the forest, sip a glass of red wine warmed by the fire. Honeymoon forever.  

ON PARADE - THE MUST HAVE CAKES & TARTS

 A collection of divine recipes that you will want to keep and enjoy!

Chocolate, almonds, oranges and semolina, wholesome, simple and delicious tastes together with a soupçon of the unusual by some well known food writers. Among them Phillippa Cheifitz, Heilie Pienaar, Marlene van der Westhuizen, Barbara Newman and Sue Lawrence known as the ‘Queen of Baking’ in Scotland.