The Sunday Telegraph London, July 30th, 2006
Do you want a spoiling holiday but have no time to plan it, let alone buy a guidebook and read it before you go? No time for jet lag? Then here is my recently tried and tested remedy.
First hop on a night flight to Cape Town. Supper on the plane, a film, sleep - or as much as you can manage - breakfast before landing when breakfast is supposed to be (there's only a two-hour time difference) and arrive at your city hotel in time for a long morning by the pool.
If ever a city was chilled, it's Cape Town, wrapped tightly round enthralling Table Mountain. Along with cool restaurants and bars, it...
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