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Cape Town rewards preparation more than most cities, and the good news is that the preparation is five ideas, not fifty. Choose your base like a local. Run your days in halves, bec

Two practicalities are worth ten minutes of planning. First, insurance: medical treatment, evacuation, cancellations and adventure activities can create large costs, so choose cove

Almost never in the city, and just often enough on the mountains to make the news. Cape Town's winters run on rain, wind and dramatic skies rather than white Christmases; the city

English is completely enough: you can bank, dine, hike, hospital and argue about the rugby entirely in English in Cape Town. But the city's voice is a three-language mix, English,

Quiz night answers, first. South Africa does not have one capital but three: Cape Town is the legislative capital and seats Parliament, Pretoria is the executive capital and seats