Tag Archives: Franschhoek
Not all towns are tourism towns and some towns will never become tourism towns. I first mentioned the need for towns to be categorised in “Tourism will never be Helen Zille’s game-changer until there are lots of changes.” In response … Continue reading
Tulbagh’s Church Street must be the most beautiful street in South Africa. Devastated by an earthquake in 1969, it was painstakingly restored and the 32 buildings comprise the largest concentration of National Monuments in a single street in South Africa, all of … Continue reading
Thirty years ago, Franschhoek was sleepy hollow personified, and very little had changed in the preceding 70 years. It was a farming dorp which attracted a few city folk on a Sunday drive to escape the city and the only … Continue reading
Big investments are not new in Franschhoek, and it’s rumoured that a new foreign owner is spending billions on a property at the other end of Dassenberg Road. That wasn’t a typo, yes… billions. Now that’s crazy! But the old … Continue reading
