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Relais & Chateaux
There are two great things about South Africa. One is that it is in the southern hemisphere, and so it is one half of the perfect life summer in England (Ok, well maybe not this year), and winter 7,000 miles further south. The second is that, unlike almost any other non-European travel hotspot, it is…
“This cape is the most stately thing,” Sir Francis Drake wrote in his journal in 1580. “The fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.” Who am I to question Sir Francis? But I thought I’d better hop in a helicopter just to be sure. We circle over Table Mountain, spot a…