It’s whale time in the Cape, and while we don’t have the longest, loudest or deepest diving, our whales bring us joy. Here are a few whale tales: Largest: Blue Whale - these enormous animals reach up to and over 30 metres long and are found in many waters around the world Deepest Diving: Sperm Whale - these 20 [...]
The word “tapas” is derived from the Spanish verb tapar or “to cover”. To cover what you may ask? Well if you reference the book The Joy of Cooking, slices of bread or meat were used by Andalusian tavern goers to cover their glasses between sips to prevent fruit flies from dropping into their sweet [...]
Did you know that Fynbos has 1200 types of flowering plants? It’s not just vygies that bring colour to the landscape, there are lots of little flower festivals bustling to show you their blooms, and if you’re lucky, the veldt flowers will also make an appearance. Clanwilliam Wild Flower Show (26 August -31 August 2011): [...]
Did you know? 20 years ago (6 Aug 1991) – The first ever website (info.cern.ch) went live, invented by Tim Berners-Lee to communicate with colleagues at the Cern laboratories in Geneva. 34 years ago (16 August 1977) – Elvis Presley died. An employee at the hospital said he had the arteries of an 80 year-old [...]