Pink Biscuits and Bubbly

Pink Biscuits and Bubbly

On a recent trip to France, I visited Reims, the capital of the champagne region. A city with history, art and culture, champagne (of course) and pink biscuits. all making for a delectable story that has just been published in Bidvest’s Premier magazine. “It all started 2 months ago at the kitchen counter while I …

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Breaking Bread with a President – Food/Travel story published in SLOW Magazine

Breaking Bread with a President – Food/Travel story published in SLOW Magazine

I like the ritual of “breaking bread” with someone – it’s welcoming and has a tinge of warmth to it. This is my thought while eyeing the golden croissant poised between my fingers. My girlfriend and I are at a café in Paris. Helene-Marie prefers a morning baguette and I prefer a croissant, and this…

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Why I’m no longer a photographer…

Why I’m no longer a photographer…

I’m no longer a photographer… I’m now a visual, content creator and storyteller… because visual content is Royalty!!! Back in the day when I first became a photographer, meetings with clients whether an agency, magazine, business or a Corporate the discussions would be around campaigns and single or double-page spreads. Now the most common discussion…

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A restaurant where you can push your girlfriend over the edge and she’ll be pleasantly surprised.

A restaurant where you can push your girlfriend over the edge and she’ll be pleasantly surprised.

It’s been said that we judge and are judged within the 1st 3 seconds of first meeting someone. I’m not sure how this relates to my story but I’ve passed the latest restaurant on our Sea Point Main Rd eating-out- adventure, many times – and I’ve judged it quite dismissively with never before ordering from…

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A  restaurant where coconut milk is the least bland thing we tried – but then again I could have just been in a bad mood…

A restaurant where coconut milk is the least bland thing we tried – but then again I could have just been in a bad mood…

Our 3rd venture of our eating out in restaurants lining Sea Point Main rd started off in a very subdued mood. Helene had a knee operation last year and was bravely limping along trying to combat the pain. I’d just returned from a trip with the return leg taking 26 hours, including an 8-hour layover…

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A restaurant where you can wear a little black dress and red, suede stilettos!

A restaurant where you can wear a little black dress and red, suede stilettos!

Our second destination of our restaurant exploring adventures was Aris Souvlaki- the legendary Greek eatery that’s decorated Sea Point Main Road since before I arrived here. I’d survived the burping incident after the 1st restaurant. (See the previous blog post), but I was told in no uncertain terms that it would be the first and…

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A restaurant where you can burp in your girlfriend’s face!

A restaurant where you can burp in your girlfriend’s face!

There’s something cool about Sea Point Main Rd. Forever busy during the day, over the weekends and the holiday season with minibus taxi’s, car guards, hawkers, shop owners, locals and tourists – hooting, selling, chatting and passing each other by. Even the ocean plays its part. When the wind is right the sea air wafts…

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Why you should always hold onto your old photos and negatives.

Why you should always hold onto your old photos and negatives.

Ever since becoming a photographer, beginning during the days of film, I’ve always kept my pictures. Yip, past girlfriends haven’t always liked the boxes and cabinets of negatives, contact sheets, and prints…..but hey, they soon came to understand that they were references to my work. About 10 – 12 years ago I was in the…

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A Mountainous task – ensuring the safety of Table mountain summiters. Published by Sawubona – SAA’s in-flight magazine

A Mountainous task – ensuring the safety of Table mountain summiters. Published by Sawubona – SAA’s in-flight magazine

One can only imagine the amazement and awe of those first inhabitants of the Cape, and the settlers who came after, on rounding Table Bay and laying eyes on Table Mountain. Subject of myth and legend, this ancient massif has been a symbol of Cape Town ever since. Before 1929, the only way to get…

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Xtra Virgin Olive oil is the only way to go – Travel Opulent Box Ezine

Xtra Virgin Olive oil is the only way to go – Travel Opulent Box Ezine

(This story was used in Travel Opulent Box’s Ezine) To me weekend getaways should be sun-filled, lazy and idyllic.  But here I am, bundled together with 3 others, in a rented country- cottage in the Riebeek Valley, waiting out the most brutal of storms. The pounding water on the tin roof is deafening, drowning out…

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The Sweet Sultans of Istanbul – The Blue Train Magazine

The Sweet Sultans of Istanbul – The Blue Train Magazine

With limited time to see the sites, I negotiated my way through the warren of cobbled streets of this ancient city.  Side-stepping tea carrying waiters, I  window shopped past rows of curio displays and fended off enthusiastic carpet salesmen,  before my interest was suddenly arrested by the most succulent, vivid and artistic display imaginable. I…

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Big City Vibe or Small Town Living? – The Blue Train Magazine

Big City Vibe or Small Town Living? – The Blue Train Magazine

Growing up in Gauteng, the Karoo was nothing more to me than a flat wasteland to be endured while driving towards Cape Town for the summer holidays. From the still furnace of the car, dreams of lying on one of the Mother City’s beaches seemed as much an illusion as the mirages of heat rising…

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What’s in a Plate? – Horizons – BA In-Flight Magazine

What’s in a Plate? – Horizons – BA In-Flight Magazine

“What to do today?” I pondered upon opening my curtains and taking in a perfect early morning Sunday. My energy levels jumped a gear as rising in front of me and seemingly suspended from the rich blue sky, stood the most colossal sandstone sculptor overlooking and guarding the city. I would  have loved to be…

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SMOKIN’ POT – British Airways in-flight magazine

SMOKIN’ POT – British Airways in-flight magazine

When I’m depressed I need to eat!  So after visiting the “Killing Fields” and Prison S21 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the two of the many places where Pol Pot interrogated, tortured and murdered anyone that he and his party, the Khmer Rouge, thought were counter revolutionary, I really needed to eat.  I’d heard of a…

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Rise and shine in Cape Town – Abbout Time magazine

Rise and shine in Cape Town – Abbout Time magazine

As the first spring days stretch out like a purring cat the more active Capetonian ready themselves in anticipation for the energetic feast that lies ahead. As the spring turns to summer and the rising sun encroaches more boldly into the very early morning night-time, the winter woollies are discarded and replaced with lighter more…

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Baboon Matters – Abboutime -1 Time Airline’s in-flight magazine

Baboon Matters – Abboutime -1 Time Airline’s in-flight magazine

Baboons for me have always been the animals that taught Tarzan to swing heroically while yodelling, through the dense jungles of Africa. As I’m ignorant about primates, I could be mistaken, and it could’ve been Monkeys, Gorillas or Apes who were Tarzan’s tutors. Baboons, according to me, are dangerous, just sit in trees and steal…

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Southern Laos

Southern Laos

22 August 2008. Hey Guys I hope you’re all sitting down because I have some VERY big news………. I’m getting married! Can you believe it at the age of 31 there is someone out there who actually wants to marry me? But more of that later. I’m back in Laos, in the south, as I…

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Cambodia

Cambodia

 7 August 2008. Hey Guys I hope you’re all well. I’m in Cambodia and I know it’s been raining plenty back home, but the rainy season has seriously hit here and it’s WET!!. I think this must have been one of my brighter ideas coming here in the rainy season….very well done on my part….

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Happy Ending

Happy Ending

 17 July 2008. Heya All I hope you’re all fine and dandy, especially after the Springboks finally beat the All Blacks and South Pacific Islanders on their home soil. Schweeeet. Since my last e mail I’ve left Hanoi and I started heading south towards Saigon. My first stop was about 90 km south but took…

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Hanoi

Hanoi

 5 June 2008. Herroh from Vietnam…… !!!!!! I hope you’re all well I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Sa Pa (Suppa) where I’ll be for the rest of the day as I had to check out of my humble abode at 9am and have to sit around until 9pm until the overnight train back…

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Second home – But thankfully I still have my first – 5 June 2008

Second home – But thankfully I still have my first – 5 June 2008

I’m dropped off outside a Wat…what? A temple. If the temple hadn’t been there I would have thought I was in a scene from “Rambo 1-9″ “Hmm, maybe I’ll speak to my yet not found agent about this place. I could see a movie here.” The area is amazing. Trees all around, plenty of water,…

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The Road To Enlightenment – 2 June 2008

The Road To Enlightenment – 2 June 2008

After wandering around Chiang Mai for a few days I picked up a flyer that advertised – Come and visit “Second home”. A place where you can come and stay for as long as you like, learn about and practice Buddhism, meditation, organic farming and authentic Thai vegetarian cooking. All meals included. Don’t pay, donations…

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A New Star is Born

A New Star is Born

Hey Maja I hope you’re well. You’re going to love this After a long day walking around Kho san road, bartering with store owners and eventually buying nothing. I do think I left a lot of pissed off store owners in my wake and will never be welcome back even if I really wanted to…

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