Zambia’s Superwomen, Working in the Wild
Zambia: Female safari guides are seldom seen, so that remains a staunch male bastion. But life in the bush is gradually changing as women break through.
About Cindy-Lou Dale
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The Isle of Man Best Friend: The Manx Cat
Isle of Man: A visit to the Mann Cat Sanctuary on the Isle of Man, famous for its tailless cats and the TT motorcycle races on the isle.
South Africa: Route 62 through the Karoo
It’s one of the quietest places on Earth attracting eccentric hippies, novelists, crafters, artisan brewers, chefs and funky hoteliers. Best of all, few visitors have heard of Route 62, let alone driven it – making it the least traveled highway in Southern Africa. By Cindy-Lou Dale Millions of us are descending on the same handful […]
Cradock: A Colonial Farming Town in South Africa
A road-trip along Route 62, South Africa’s old ox-wagon trail. By Cindy-Lou Dale Driving through Route 62’s authentic one-horse towns, along barrel-straight roads bordering immense stretches of farmland, is a time for reflection, for visiting a roadside store — and at some point, becoming a biltong guru. When I told my petrol pump attendant that […]
Rajasthan: For First-Timers to India
By Cindy-Lou Dale Travellers are wising-up to staged ‘local encounters’ which have become little more than human safaris. In Rajasthan, for example, independent and privately-owned hotel owners uplift their immediate communities and have a local guide savvy explorers’ around. This way, you get to see genuine village life without intruding – which is where the […]
Hike through the Hills of Luxembourg
It’s more than a banking paradise! By Cindy-Lou Dale Found at the very heart of Western Europe is a small country named Luxembourg – it’s 50-miles long and 42-miles wide. Luxembourg City, the Grand Duchy’s capital, founded in 963, has maintained an atmosphere of contemplative tranquillity and at its historic core (declared a World Heritage) […]
Casablanca, the Miami of Morocco
Why we’ll always have Casablanca By Cindy Lou Dale The international jet-set claim to have uncovered a few Moroccan cities, waxing lyrically about the ‘real’ thing they’ve discovered in the narrow streets and complex passageways of medinas. Yet none of them mention Casablanca, except as a transit point, dismissing it entirely, quickly moving onto Fes, […]
Bree Street: South Africa’s Best Food Strip
The Western Cape’s reputation for wine is undiminished — but now its food has caught up. By Cindy-Lou Dale When it comes to eating opportunities, you don’t get much hotter than Bree Street’s central reaches. It’s overtaken Camps Bay, Long Street and even Kloof Street as Cape Town’s coolest strip. Taking a walk along Bree St, […]
South Africa’s Wine Route: Cape Route 62
Paarl – the pearl of the Boland in South Africa’s Wine Region By Cindy-Lou Dale A 40-minute drive outside Cape Town, on Route 62, at the foot of the second-largest granite outcrop in the world, you’ll find an unexpected jewel: the scenic town of Paarl, a place brimming with Cape Dutch, Victorian and Art Deco […]
Taste Norway, from Local Cheese to Cured Moose
By Cindy-Lou Dale It’s love at first bite! There’s a quiet culinary uprising catching on in Norway; a new-found pride and a change in attitude towards food traditions. This has given rise to the production of local and organic produce which people in the know claim is the result of their climatic conditions and landscape. […]
Five ways to Quickly See London’s Landmarks
Seeing most of London’s major sites (without the queues). By Cindy-Lou Dale Despite jokes about accents and what, exactly, a chip is, London remains a popular destination for American travellers, which has no shortage of tourist staples: Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Tower Bridge, Big Ben, the House of Parliament, but London’s appeal doesn’t lie only in […]
Cigar Lounges in Tallinn, Estonia
Smoking cigars in Tallinn By Cindy-Lou Dale Hidden in the gothic Old Town of Tallinn, with its distinctive pewter-colored steeples, pink-domed cathedrals, red-tiled roofs, spiked minarets, and cobbled alleyways is a culture of smoking lounges that double as quality cigar shops. Here cognac, plump chairs and sagging sofas provide an engagingly club’ish atmosphere to its moneyed […]
