Life is short, eat dessert first

EVERYONE says it, but how many actually do it? Quite a lot of people apparently, but I hadn't, nor do I personally know anyone who has, or does so regularly. "Having dessert first is the same idea that people like to have breakfast foods at night. It is unconventional, but it is fun. It makes you…
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Breathe in, hold, release…and relax at Temenos

AS an introvert (and other sensitive personality types) living in an extrovert's world, things can get really noisy and overwhelming; advice, often unwelcome, is freely given as to how to be more outgoing and to function "better" in the mayhem. No one suggests how the loud people can learn to be…
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Tasty little morsels with wine at L’Avenir

THE marathon of drinking wine and eating on day three in Stellenbosch continued with a visit to L'Avenir. We were to have the carpaccio pairing but our good friend Ryan Bredenkamp - one of the jolliest, most fun people I've had the pleasure of wine tasting with over the years - decided…
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A celebration of exquisite Simonsberg red blends

BEING located between Franschhoek, Paarl and Stellenbosch, not everyone knows Simonsberg-Paarl is a wine region in its own right. The area makes some of the country’s most distinctive red blends with a distinct style, using predominantly Syrah or Cabernet Sauvignon. The Simonsberg Wine Assembly,…
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Key Change – a night of piano magic

JONATHAN ROXMOUTH is an incredible pianist - and I mean that in the true sense of the word: "difficult to believe; extraordinary". In fact, when I saw him previously I pondered whether he was even playing for real, so hard it was to conceive that anyone's fingers could move like that, so impeccably.…
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