Category: Activities

  • The Best Way To See Cape Town

    The Best Way To See Cape Town

    As you can imagine, I have a lot of people asking me for advice on what to see and do when visiting Cape Town. Whether you’re visiting for 1 day or 10, the best way to see Cape Town is on the hop-on, hop-off City Sightseeing bus.

  • Top Reasons To Get To Robertson Wine On The River 2015

    Top Reasons To Get To Robertson Wine On The River 2015

    This weekend is Wine On The River in Robertson. This is a great wine festival because it’s not as crazy as the Wacky Wine Weekend and everything happens in one place so you don’t have to move around from estate to estate. I went yesterday to check it out and here are some top reasons…

  • My Top 5 Entertainer Partners

    My Top 5 Entertainer Partners

    The 2015 Entertainer has been launched and there are now over 500 awesome partners offering 2 for 1 vouchers that total R800,000! Here are my top 5 restaurant partners and top 5 activity partners.

  • Galileo Open Air Cinema

    Galileo Open Air Cinema

    The Galileo open air cinema has been going for a few years now. It started just at Kirstenbosch on Wednesday evenings, but now they have a few venues: Hillcrest Quarry (Tuesdays), V&A Waterfront (Thursdays) and various venues in the winelands (Saturdays). My first visit was just a few weeks ago, as I wanted to give…

  • Jorgensen’s Distillery review

    I like artisanal producers. I like their passion, I like the variety of product they provide and I like the type of people they generally are. Through Relax with Dax and Slow Food I get to meet a lot of artisan producers and all of them, whether they produce beer or wine or a food…

  • Sport Helicopters

    One of the (many) things I love about Cape Town is that even though I have been here over ten years, there is always something I haven’t done or seen. A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to enjoy a helicopter flip over Cape Town. We all know Cape Town is a beautiful…

  • Wheel of Excellence

    I drive down Buitengracht and onto the freeway everyday to get to work. Coming home one day I saw a giant wheel which I promise was not there in the morning. I later learned that it was fully constructed within a week, which is pretty impressive. Things don’t normally happen that fast around here. The…

  • Fantastic Racing at Killarney

    One of the many things I love about Cape Town is that one is always discovering cool new things to do, see and experience. Last week I was invited by Cape Town Tourism to a race day at Killarney race track. It was a totally new experience for me and most enjoyable. I didn’t really…

  • Glasshouse review

    I had to start a new category for this review. I thought that seeing as this website/blog is called Relax with Dax, it should cover some proper relaxtion options, not just restaurants, shows and events. So in the Relaxation category I hope to review and share various relaxation options in Cape Town. I’ve never been…