Fifty, Free, and Travelling Together: A Women’s Road Trip Through South Africa’s Western Cape
By Lynette McDonald, Co-founder of Wine & Wild The year I turned fifty, the house went quiet for the first time in decades. My youngest, Aimee, had just left for university, and so the school runs and the client meetings and the dinner preps, the whole beautiful, chaotic hum of a household running entirely on […]
One Hundred Years of Kruger — and I’ve Been Under Its Spell for Fifty-Six of Them
My mother steered me sideways with the quiet efficiency of someone who had been keeping a small person out of trouble for eight years and wasn’t about to stop anytime soon. The warthog barely registered us. Low to the ground, his tusks catching the afternoon light, he came trotting along the path between our rondavel […]
The Rise of Solo Female Travel Groups (And Why South Africa Should Be on Your List)
More women are travelling solo than ever before and they’re choosing luxury. Here’s what the data says, and why South Africa belongs on your list. There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over you when you realise you’ve stopped waiting. Stopped waiting for the right travel companion, the right year, the right version of […]