Long, wide and startlingly white, there is no better stretch of sand for a canter through the surf than Noordhoek Beach. Get up early enough and you can see a real gallop in action, with racehorses at full speed, preparing for their next visit to Kenilworth or Durbanville Race Courses. The Dunes Racing Stables, tucked [...]
Gone are the days when it was all downhill from middle age. Oh yes, you can still be nifty at over fifty. Now, people are staying younger for longer (by one means or another) and retiring later (Raymond Ackerman retired aged 79). There’s life in the old dog yet but it helps if someone else [...]
Be amazed by the YouTube video of a 76 year old woman Salsa dancing better than anyone a third of her age! Don’t be fooled by the title ‘Ginger Rogers dances salsa at 92’, it’s not Ginger, it’s a beautiful mature lady showing us all up. If it doesn’t get you inspired to dance, [...]
Carpe Diem are two simple words that express so much and encourage us to ‘Seize the Day’, as written by the ancient Roman poet Horace, because as he rightly says, “the future is unforeseen”. The horse-drawn taxi drivers of Cape Town had seized the moment, back in 1905, to head down to the docks for [...]