The season to be jolly meets the season of giving in today’s Gracevine post – we rounded up a selection of hangover cures that work to help you through the ‘Silly Season’. Top 5 Drinks to Cure a Hangover 1. Water, water and more water (and pain reliever or two) 2. Appletiser 3. Cream Soda [...]
You’d never know that what looks like a poolside changing room at the Wild Mushroom Boutique Hotel outside Stellenbosch, is actually a mushroom growing lab. All sorts of things at The Wild Mushroom are not quite what they seem, including the Manager, Dr Adriaan Smit, who happens to be a mycologist –a branch of botany [...]
Festival of Chariots On 26 December a local version of an ancient Indian street festival, made popular by Hare Krishna devotees, will be parading through Main Road, Seapoint. Festival-goers will hand-pull a 20-metre wooden chariot bearing the figures of Jagannath, Baladeva and Subhadra to the sounds of melodious singing. This tradition is over 5,000 years [...]
We posed our General Manager, Nigel Pace, ten questions about Christmas: 1. What will you be doing on Christmas day? Having brunch at home with close friends. I never make big plans for Christmas since it is never holiday time for me! 2. What is your favourite Christmas meal? Will you be having it this year? [...]