Cape Town is Probably the Most Beautiful City in the World

There is nothing like it in the world. Let me share it with you.

I want to show you a Cape Town that the tourist books don’t show you. This is the Victoria and Alfred waterfront in Cape Town. Own photo

I spent ten years in Cape Town between 1979 and 1989, and then I spent four years there between 2016 and 2020. I can’t tell you that I enjoyed the city in terms of its social life and its people. I didn’t. It has a reputation for being unfriendly (clicky), as…

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Tessa Schlesinger - Born and bred in Africa.

Complexity is never easy to explain, and far too many stick to black and white, and forget about the colors and the greys.