Sunday, 20 May 2012

Latest Tweets

  • Off to #France tmrw and realised how (frighteningly?) good I've become at packing my suitcase. Languedoc here we come! #frequent #traveller

    about 8 hours ago

  • Great news... well done @SharkSpotters: Shark Spotters Programme gets support from Mayoral Committee to fund for 3 yrs: http://t.co/SDgfQjA7

    Saturday, 19 May 2012 16:07

  • @DevilsPeakBC Happy days... my #craftbeer stock is running low. Keep an ear out too, @simonthetwit.

    Saturday, 19 May 2012 09:19

  • Happy to hear the @SocietiBistro crew are opening 'Josephine's Cookhouse' in the old Jospehine Mill, Newlands. Can't wait for that!

    Saturday, 19 May 2012 09:18

  • @DevilsPeakBC But where, oh where can we buy those gorgeous bottles in the southern suburbs? http://t.co/NfKt44G7 #craftbeer

    Saturday, 19 May 2012 08:59

Polls

Should airlines take more responsibility for luggage that gets stolen/looted while in their care?
 

So, who is on another plane?

Well, that would be me; Richard Holmes, a travel and lifestyle journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I say based because my assignments take me far and wide on a regular basis, from cruising the Danube to downing dim sum in the backstreets of Hong Kong. On another plane? Well, it could also have been onanotherboat, bus or horse 'n cart, but given the amount of airline food I subject myself to this seemed like the ideal address for my online portfolio of writing and photography.

At the moment my time (when not on planes!) is split between editing the travel section of iafrica.com and writing for a range of consumer and trade publications in South Africa and abroad. iafrica.com is one of the largest internet portals in South Africa and, dating back to 1997, one of the most respected brands on the South African online landscape. Offline, I contribute regularly for publications such as the Sunday Times Travel & Food, Saturday Star Travel, Get Lost (Australia), Longevity, Horizons, Mango Juice, Food&Home Entertaining, EatIn, Explore SA, Sawubona, Indwe, Mango Juice, Signature, AA Traveller, Garden & Home, Time Out, Out There Travel, Diversions, travelideas and Travel Industry Review. I am also a reviewer for EatOut, South Africa's premier restaurant guide, and a regular correspondent for 'Time to Travel' which is broadcast weekly on national radio station SAfm.

On the site you'll find a selection of articles, galleries, travel news and general musings on destinations across South Africa and the globe. You can see a selection of my work in the Travel or Food & Wine sections, but if you just want to want to find out what planes I've been on recently (and what I discovered on the other end) simply click through to the 'blog' to catch up on all my latest destinations, discoveries and diatribes.

Got questions? Want to get in touch? Got a secret destination you think I should check out? Click here for all my contact details.

Richard Holmes travel writer

 

Latest work

Restaurant reviewsNava fear, Giorgio's here

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Flower trader. Nightclub owner. Restaurateur. Chef. Entrepreneur. It’s hard to put a label on Giorgio Nava, especially when all of the above apply to this softly spoken man from Milano. Born in northern Italy in 1946, it was a circuitous route...
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AdventureMarked by the desert

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“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate...
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Restaurant reviewsBar Hopping

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Thought the best chocolate came from Switzerland, and that a glass-and-a-half of milk was all you needed for the perfect bar? Richard Holmes meets two local chocolate-makers that are full of beans…   Bean-to-bar: CocoaFair I...
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Restaurant reviewsA culture of cheese

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I’m yet to meet a fervent foodie that doesn’t love cheese; whether it’s nutty cheddar or a creamy Camembert. But do you actually know what goes into your favourite cheese? Or how it’s made? Why some cheeses use microbial, instead of...
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AdventureEye on the whites

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Out at the Muizenberg backline we call them the ‘men in grey suits’. Here in the waters of Cape Town’s False Bay, to mention the Great White Sharks by name would – for the superstitious – be inviting an unwelcome visit. So instead we...
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AdventureChange is good

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Like the waters that ebb and flow through Knysna’s famous lagoon, this ever-popular holiday town is all about change; elephants come and go, forests are cut down and renewed, holiday houses are repainted or rebuilt. Visit in a year’s time and...
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