While living on the island of Mauritius (and eating far too many baguettes a l’Ancienne with delicious French cheese), I decided to start yoga to to stay fit and healthy, and to relieve the stress that comes with running a busy media business. The Wellness Festival Mauritius came up soon after, and offered me a truly transformative experience.
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Jeff Ayliffe caught up with the formidable Tina Plattner prior to the start of the Odzala Discovery Camps 52 SUPER SERIES event in Cape Town. There’s so much more to Tina than meets the eye, with her passion for sailing, horses, people, life and learning.
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Mark Mills, designer of the sporty Cape 31, has done it again! The Mark Mills MD75 Karma, built by Maxi Dolphin has been voted the Best Sailing Yacht at The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2020 held in Capri, Italy.
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South African born Mike Horn is a world renowned adventure and explorer. As a child he always had a fascination for the unknown. His hobby is preserving the planet. He climbs the highest mountains and crosses the widest seas as he pursues it. But what makes an adventurer like him tick?
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Travel photography is a skill. To really show a place, its culture and its people the photographer needs to capture the true essence of that place without making it look too stylised and contrived. Conde Nast Traveller has searched Instagram for some of the best travel photographers around. And these are the people they are following right now—from food photographers and architecture lovers to magazine veterans— these photographers break up our feeds with unexpected and wholly transportive doses of travel inspiration.
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Spirit Yachts recently unveiled their highly anticipated 34m sailing yacht, the Spirit 111. With eco-features throughout and a stand-out interior design that makes you wonder if you are indeed on a boat, this sloop-rigged yacht is the largest single-masted wooden sailing yacht to be built in the UK since Shamrock V in the 1930’s. At the request of her buyer, the Spirit 111 has been designed and built in-house by Spirit Yachts to be one of the most environmentally friendly sailing Superyachts ever created.
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Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be an onboard reporter (OBR) in The Ocean Race? Offwatch chats to James Blake about his experience as a floating OBR for the teams, and what it takes to have the responsibility of documenting an ocean race that circumvents the world. James explains the challenges of building relationships with the sailors especially when moving between teams, maintaining objectivity in every situation – good or bad – and how to do the best storytelling in extreme conditions.
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How would you deal with a sudden crash in the middle of the ocean in the pitch black of night? And how does it feel to have a camera pushed in your face in the middle of such a crisis? Niall Myant-Best from The Ocean Race’s Offwatch series puts all these questions, and more to Chris Nicholson.
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CNTraveler reveals the worlds most beautiful restaurants – from a candlelit courtyard in Ibiza to our very own foraging sensation in South Africa. From their list of 35 we have selected 10 restaurants based on their uniqueness, and the once in a lifetime experience on offer.
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The Red Bull Big Wave Awards have been announced – where the biggest, baddest…
