Why be content with a quick stroll on Table Mountain when you can hike the 97km Hoerikwaggo walking trail?
Mother Nature likes her little jokes. Just take the blombos plant. To most people it’s a nondescript South African shrub. But as I strode out on a gloriously sunny morning, a 45-minute drive but a world away from Cape Town’s iconic Green Point football stadium, the plant started giving off quite a pong.
Its rich buttery odour of honey on toast wafted towards our group of hikers, which made me wish I hadn’t set out on an empty stomach, and pray that a break for elevenses might turn out to be “tenses” instead.
Now that the hullaballoo from the World