by The Jax | Oct 4, 2016 | The Jax Blog, australia, Travel
5 Quirky Things about Australia I love Australia and I love Australians, happy-go-lucky by nature, fun-loving, generous of heart and all round warm and welcoming nation. Whilst finding my feet in mini South Africa, I noticed a few offbeat things and I’d like to...
by The Jax | Sep 21, 2016 | The Jax Blog, australia, sydney, Food, Travel
Lucky Tsotsi , the very name sounds like an oxymoron. You see back home in South Africa ‘Tsotsi’ means thug or gangster. So you can imagine my surprise to find an eatery in Sydney with that name that wasn’t actually dodgy! Isn’t it peculiar how...
by The Jax | Sep 7, 2016 | The Jax Blog, australia, Brisbane, Travel
Brilliant Brisbane sums up perfectly this sunshine state of Australia! A picture is worth a thousand words! I was fortunate to spend a weekend in this young, vibrant, artsy city and just in time for the Brisbane festival too! Instead of me blabbing on about this...
by The Jax | Aug 10, 2016 | Western Cape, Restaurant, Food, south africa, Travel
Transkaroo bring haar padkos! Is Afrikaans for ‘Transkaroo bring her food for the road’. This is a play on words from the opening lyric of the South African hit television show of the eighties, named Transkaroo. “Transkaroo bring haar huistoe”...
by The Jax | Jul 21, 2016 | Western Cape, Restaurant, The Jax Blog, cape town, south africa, wine
An Inner City Wine Route to Remember Tuning The Vine , an inner city wine route; is an ingenious concept of bringing the vineyards to city dwellers once a month here in Cape Town, South Africa. Dubbed as the new hip urban wine adventure from Fine Wine Events, promises...