Franschhoek Bastille Festival 14 and 15 July 2007
Franschhoek, South Africa’s Gourmet Capital, is once again celebrating its centuries-old French Huguenot heritage with a wonderful feast of food, wine and entertainment at its annual Bastille Festival on the weekend of July 14 and 15...more...

Graham Beck's Valentine’s gesture
With February approaching, and short-deadline media working on deadlines, Graham Beck deemed it fitting that their three vivacious bubblies be brought to life as a Valentine’s gesture...more...

From Bocuse, with love
Look, to go to France to eat is much like breaking a period of celibacy by being made love to by Johnny Depp.

Two weeks in France and on the agenda, the French Riviera, Provence and a few days on a barge, no less. But all routes, as far as I was concerned, led to the messiah of mastication and the reigning king of personal aggrandisement, French chef and restaurateur Paul Bocuse...more

Mesmerising Midlands
I felt so good I could almost have walked on the water under that pretty bridge at Caversham, but I wouldn’t want to upstage anyone.

I had been on a mesmerisingly beautiful walk from Pleasant Places near Howick in the Natal Midlands through indigenous forests, along the banks of babbling brooks and rivers, past cherry blossoms and banks of Azalea in full pronk, ending at a potter with the look of a Buddhist...more