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Africa’s most southerly winery, Strandveld Vineyards, 2.5 hours’ drive southeast of Cape Town, is an impressive 670 hectares of stunning landscape. Strandveld’s ‘First Sighting’ label commemorates Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias’ first sight of land, in 1488. The Cape of Good Hope is only 11km away. Winemaker Conrad Vlok also shares the joy of this amazing ‘terroir’, location. You see dozens of buffalo in fenced areas, and solar panels and a windmill, all part of a scheme to offset Germany’s carbon footprint. The 69 hectares that are planted with vines are in neat, pipe-irrigated lines, rows of vines alternately spaced by piles of canola stalks, for mulch, or wild mustard, to repel insects from the vines.
In Santa Monica, a few miles north- west of Los Angeles, the beach-set Shutters on the Beach has hand- made green Italian bicycles that are designed by Hollywood favourite Kate Spade. www.katespade.com
My latest must-have travel accessory is a Travel Blue go-anywhere adaptor. Yes, I have boxes of adaptors at home but apart from Australia and China, which both require V-shaped plugs, and India and South Africa, who want big-rounds, this colourful little thing is universal. It has three bright blue and lightweight parts that fit, as a puzzle, into a box. I love it.
www.travel-blue.com
Former New York fashionista Elizabeth Kiester was so enamoured of her travels in Cambodia that she up and moved there, lock stock and barrel. She now has three Wanderlust stores, two in Siem Reap and one in Phnom Penh. www.wanderlustcambodia.com.
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