Make the Journey Your Destination
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley, wrote Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Contributor Jim Freeman learned this hard lesson again when he took the recently launched new-generation SUV from Ford to Frontier Country. Don’t you just hate it when things go potentially catastrophically wrong right at the
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Kwandwe Private Game Reserve Sometimes you need a stiff drink after getting really close to the King of the Beasts, admits Jim Freeman after one of his many trips to the wilds of the Eastern Cape. You might think you know lions but, till a male in his prime has stopped five
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The new Vitara Brezza has recently wafted into the country, and in keeping with the Way of Life credo of Suzuki, it is a nimble urban runabout with the ground clearance, ride height, and interior space of a true SUV. We took the flagship GLX auto model to Strandfontein on
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The sideshows are wonderful but, to Jim Freeman, the bush is always the main attraction, more so when travelling to eManzana (Badplaas) to visit the luxurious Nkomazi Private Game Reserve ... Most people, when travelling by road from Gauteng to the game reserves of Mpumalanga, keep heading East along the N12 or
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It was a beautiful, sunny Cape Winter’s day with nary a cloud in the indigo blue sky when we visited the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, situated on the R320, on our way to the Harbour House Hotel in Hermanus. Experiencing the valley in all its splendour made it easy to understand why
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When it comes to planning a road trip in the Western Cape, it should come as no surprise that the Garden Route is one of the most popular choices. Maxine Volker followed the route all the way to Plett, with The Plettenberg Hotel as the final destination. The Garden Route, which stretches
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