February is the month of Love… which also means cheesy gifts, roses galore and frantic last minute restaurant bookings, so why not stay in this year and treat the one you love to Head Pastry Chef, Lorraine Meaney’s decadent (and easy) Raspberry, Rose and Litchi Pavlova? RECIPE: PAVLOVA Ingredients: 2 egg whites 56g castor sugar [...]
The Spa at Cape Grace is in a celebratory mood for the month of love, with spa packages to delight individuals as well as couples. How about getting girlfriends together for a pamper session in the Spa, ending off with Afternoon Tea in the Cape Grace Library? The Spa has launched three special Valentine’s Day packages [...]
For those cynics who purport that Valentine’s Day is nothing more than commercial hype, they could be right, but it is no modern invention. You could blame Chaucer back in 1382, who connected Valentine (several martyrs of this name around AD 197-269), to the notion of romance. He wrote a poem that talked of ‘Volantynys’ [...]