NAILING YOUR ROAD TRIP
ESSENTIALS TO MAKE HITTING THE ROAD A BREEZE It’s February (already!), the holidays (was it a holiday?) are a long-forgotten memory involving specifically not …
SNACKING SOUTH AFRICA
A TOUR OF OUR FAVOURITE SNACKS One of the best parts about creating JAN the Journal Volume 6 was going on a real, don’t-make-‘em-like-they-used-to, authentically …
GO SLOW
Our New Appetite for Slow Travel Remember the Y2K hype? All that talk about how planes would fall from the sky at midnight, how …
ON THE WATERFRONT
There are some Capetonians who won’t admit to liking the Waterfront, but deep down, they secretly do.
DWARSKERSBOS
One of my favourite things to do when I come home is to look for a beautiful, quiet place to spend a few days just to recharge.
ABOUT THE JOURNEY
One thing that has never changed is my love for discovering new people and places – a passion that I have found is greatly enhanced by the way you travel,
A VISIT TO THE RUNGIS MARKET
On the southern outskirts of Paris – in an area whose name has become synonymous with the largest…
Before The Horizon
The need to travel is a deeply human trait that some believe hails from our nomadic past as a species. So, when struck by a worldwide pandemic,

DWARSKERSBOS
One of my favourite things to do when I come home is to look for a beautiful, quiet place to spend a few days just to recharge.

ABOUT THE JOURNEY
One thing that has never changed is my love for discovering new people and places – a passion that I have found is greatly enhanced by the way you travel,

A VISIT TO THE RUNGIS MARKET
On the southern outskirts of Paris – in an area whose name has become synonymous with the largest…

Before The Horizon
The need to travel is a deeply human trait that some believe hails from our nomadic past as a species. So, when struck by a worldwide pandemic,

The Daring Widows of Champagne
Nowhere else in 19th century France did women enjoy the kind of power they did in Champagne.

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is a window into the past, offering a glimpse into the lives…
BOUJEE UP YOUR BRAAI GAME
Q&A WITH KFM’S CARL WASTIE Tuning in to KFM’s Flash Drive between 3 and 7 on any weekday afternoon, you may have heard Carl Wastie’s energetic voice beaming over the airwaves, somehow always …
THE ART OF NERIKOMI
A VISIT TO DANIEL BRAND’S CERAMICS STUDIO What you serve a dish on is just as important as what goes into the dish. Your …
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Q&A with The Beauty Therapy Institute At the time that the Beauty Therapy Institute was founded in 1996 there was a shortage of colleges offering …
French Lessons, A Coming of Age
As a young girl growing up on the South African platteland, I had very little in the fashion stakes …
After the Swan Song
There is something I’ve always found fascinating about people: some of us have a clear vision of what we want to do, some of us …
Q&A with La Motte’s Edmund Terblanche
Over the course of his tow-decade-long career at La Motte Wine Estate, Edmund Terblanche has not …
JAN wins a SAFTA
When we made JAN the TV show, it was uncharted territory for me, so I was absolutely overwhelmed by people’s responses. Some of our viewers …
Q&A with De Grendel Winemaker, Charles Hopkins
Charles Hopkins is one of South Africa’s winemaking elite. After graduating from Elsenburg College, the prestigious Stellenbosch-based school of winemaking, in 1986, he honed his …


Q&A with La Motte’s Edmund Terblanche
Over the course of his tow-decade-long career at La Motte Wine Estate, Edmund Terblanche has not …


Q&A with De Grendel Winemaker, Charles Hopkins
Charles Hopkins is one of South Africa’s winemaking elite.

