Word: franschhoek
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Find yourself on the southern edge of Africa with 48 hours to spare and a good set of wheels at your disposal? Then set the GPS coordinates for Franschhoek in the Western Cape, and from there take a spin down Africa's southernmost road - the Garden Route. Here's an itinerary for two days of indulgence...
...Rise early from your luxury overnight accommodation at the Franschhoek boutique hotel - a historic, six-room retreat, tel: (27-21) 876 4723, and head east along the N2 highway, with Table Mountain at your back. Once you've negotiated passage over the forbidding Sir Lowry's Pass, you'll arrive in Hermanus. Brunch at the Bientang's Cave restaurant, tel: (27-28) 312 3454. It really is found in a cave and overlooks Africa's only whale sanctuary at Walker Bay. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...insist that grape antioxidants are more powerful than vitamins C and E and have a positive effect on the skin. "Because of oxidation, the body 'rusts' in the same way an apple turns brown," says Geraldine Mitton, medical director of Sant? Winelands Hotel, a wellness center in the Paarl-Franschhoek valley, one of South Africa's best-known wine regions. The solution: "Antioxidants in grapes help restore elasticity in the skin, improve circulation and combat premature aging...
...that grape antioxidants are more powerful than vitamins C and E and have a positive effect on the skin. "Because of oxidation, the body 'rusts' in the same way an apple turns brown," says Geraldine Mitton, medical director of Santé Winelands Hotel, a wellness center in the Paarl-Franschhoek valley, one of South Africa 's best-known wine regions. The solution: "Antioxidants in grapes help restore elasticity in the skin, improve circulation and combat premature aging." Typical vinotherapy treatments read like a wine list. Wine baths wash the body with Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings...
DIED. ARNE NAESS JR., 66, Norwegian shipping magnate and ex-husband of pop diva Diana Ross; after falling 320 ft. while climbing in the Franschhoek mountains; in Cape Town, South Africa. Married to Ross for 14 years until their divorce in 2000, he was an ecologist and experienced mountaineer who conquered Mount Everest...