When my first wave of friends from the U.S. finally visited last month, I was pretty pumped… until they told me their dates. They’d be arriving on a Saturday afternoon and flying out on Friday evening — and they fully intended to include a two- to three-day safari somewhere in […]
Well that was fast. A year ago today I set foot into my new home in Cape Town to the sweet strains of Shakira’s “It’s Time for Africa” blaring on the speakers, courtesy some of The Husband’s sweet, sneaky relatives. And that was less than a year after my first […]
I have two stories out in the New York Times this weekend – first, my roundup of hot new shops in Mumbai’s Bandra suburb in T magazine, and now this spotlight on my favorite Cape Town neighborhood, Bo-Kaap, for the Travel section. Read it here.
The last issue I worked on before I left Travel + Leisure last year was the big annual Food Issue, which was always my favorite. Last year, T+L debuted an epic package called Eat Like a Local, filled with more than a hundred insider tips from around the globe. This […]
New York magazine’s Spring travel issue comes out this week, and the theme is “town and country” — places where you can experience a city break and a country respite in one shot. I wrote about Cape Town and Paternoster, a sleepy beach town an hour and a half away […]
Pick up the April issue of National Geographic Traveler (US edition) to read my piece on the creative revival of Cape Town’s Woodstock neighborhood. Props to whoever came up with the title: A Pot of Design Gold in the Rainbow Nation – love it! Also love the photography, both in […]
In the April 13th issue of the New York Times T Magazine, you’ll find a piece I wrote on a spate of new concept shops in Mumbai’s ritzy Bandra neighborhood. Read it online here or in the PDF below. NYT T Magazine Bandra
In April’s 25th anniversary issue of the South African magazine Getaway, I spotlight six destinations to watch this year: Boston, Chile’s Millahue Valley, Portugal, Bale Mountains National Park in Ethiopia, Fez, and Coorg, India. Getaway 04.14 Six Destinations
The Conde Nast Traveller India website has undergone a much-needed — and gorgeous! — redesign, and I’m thrilled to be a part of it with my in-depth city guide to Cape Town. Read it for the scoop on where to stay and eat, what to do, and how to pull […]
