Places We’ve Been

With all the new changes that I have made in this last week (cutting out dairy, grain and sugar), work being hectic and life being hectic too, I’m finding myself…

One of our favourite things to do is drive into a brand new place, with no plan or agenda and just see where we land up. I get that this…

We tend to stumble across awesome places completely by accident, which is exactly how we ended up at Vergelegen. How do we do it by accident?  Well, we do this…

OK, so here’s what I thought I knew about Babylonstoren… It’s one of those places that you have on your hit list but you’re not really sure why, except that…

It’s not often that we have a night away from the kids. No wait, that’s a big fat lie. We get the night off every couple of Thursdays or so.…

It’s been so long since I saw the sun that I almost forgot what it looked like. Not to mention what it felt like not to be bundled up in…

I don’t know if you’ve ever arrived in a new town and just suddenly felt like you were home. Like if you could give up all the ties you have in…

We recently went to  the sweetest dinosaur party. My photos don’t do justice to the hard work and planning that went on behind the scenes, but my friend Zoë and…

On the last night of our holiday I cried myself to sleep. Not because I was so sad to be leaving – although that was true.  It was because one…

When Seth told me that he had organised us a holiday on a farm I was dubious. He joked with me that we’d be camping and sleeping on the floor…

I probably don’t have to tell you how much I adore my kids.  At least I hope I don’t have to tell you – I’d like to think that it’s…

Summer is here! How do I know?  Well, we spent last night huddled together under the stars watching Moulin Rouge and we didn’t end up enacting the scenes from Titanic…

In preparation for our Stellenbosch trip a couple of weekends ago, I did a little bit of research of where to go. My first point of call?  Facebook, Twitter and…

Stellenbosch you have my heart. I feel like I left some of it there after our visit the other day.  Which is a good thing, because now I have a…

Beauty. It’s so subjective.  And yet the World has formalised it somehow. In order to be “beautiful” you need to have checked all these boxes – striking facial features, radiant skin,…

Sometimes doing things for the first time can be really scary. But flying a kite is not even close to that at all. If you get it right, it can…

How much did the pirate pay for his peg leg and hook? An arm and a leg *Duh-dum-tish!* Anyway, back to the real reason that I popped onto my favourite…

Every time we head out on the N2 to escape the city, we pass Monkeyland.  Before kids I barely even noticed it as we whizzed on by, but as they…

It was still dark when we woke up, stumbling around to get everything together that I thought I had so carefully planned out the night before.  We gently woke the…

We have recently come to realise that although we absolutely LOVE to go on adventures and stay at little guest houses all over the country, sometimes the budget just doesn’t…

When I entered the giveaway on A Gorgeous Life to win tickets to the Paarl Ommniberg Round The Rock Festival, I did what I usually do – imagined I won and how I…

When I think of awesome destination places to go in Cape Town, I’ll be honest – Sea Point is not even in my Top 10.  Well, let me correct that…

There’s this saying that goes something like, “With great parenting come great responsibility“. Not quite right?  Maybe.  But I think that parenting automatically gives you some cray super powers that…