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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

Beyond AfricaPeaks of perfection

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The view from the Jungfraujoch observation deck is, quite simply, spectacular. Tucked in the saddle between two of Switzerland’s highest mountains, the highest railway station in Europe offers spectacular Alpine vistas of glaciers and snowy peaks....
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AdventureHome on the road

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In hindsight, perhaps the Bainskloof Pass wasn’t the best place to learn how to drive a campervan. It’s a gorgeous stretch of road, justifiably regarded as master road-builder Andrew Geddes Bain’s finest piece of work, but Bain probably...
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Urban EscapesTunnel vision

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I don’t like cockroaches. Rats, I can manage. Mice aren’t a problem. But don’t show me cockroaches unless I have a can of bug spray in each hand. So an hour spent scrambling through historic storm water tunnels – parts of them evidently...
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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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