Just three and a half hours drive from Cape Town you’ll find the Cederberg Mountains: an area of the Western Cape filled with dramatic sandstone rocks, mountain zebras, leopards and…
[Images by Jetline Action Photo] I can’t quite believe it; it still hasn’t sunk in. I feel like it never really happened. Looking back, memories of race day are still…
2017 is well and truly underway! It’s only now that I look back at how much I ran in 2016 and think, “Flip! I really did it!”. The months and…
It has been a few months since I was last in Cape Town and I can’t explain how nice it is to be back. Every time I return to Cape…
Marakele Reserve to Hazyview (via Tzaneen): 8 hours One last early morning drive through the Marakele reserve and we left Limpopo. We decided to take the ultra scenic route via Polokwane…
The plan was to leave Johannesburg early morning and venture into Limpopo, the far northern part of South Africa that shares it’s borders with Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. After a…
After completing Comrades, I decided to road-trip down the west coast of South Africa. I had heard about the tranquility of the Transkei and of the swell in Jeffreys Bay…
My pan of water finally boils and I pour myself a mug of Rooibos tea. Children sing as they start their long walk to school; Cattle pass leisurely on their…
When Joel Singer, owner of Origin went to Seattle he saw great things happening in the coffee industry. It was booming and the demand for high quality, independent cafés grew day by day. Yet back in Cape Town, there was nothing of the sort. Fast forward to 2006 and Origin was born: creating a “space about people”. Origin quickly became known for it’s incredible tasting coffee, with it’s own roastery situated right above the café.
My hunt for the world’s best coffee shop continues… Cape Town serves some exceptional coffee. A few cafés even have their own in-store roastery offering a huge variety of single origin…