There’s a specific day every November when it tips over. Not a date you can mark on a calendar – more a feeling. The clocks have gone back, the heating’s come on, and somewhere around the third consecutive grey afternoon you start doing the maths on how many more weeks of this there are. Quite a lot, as it turns out. 

Cape Town, at exactly this moment, is doing the opposite. The city is roughly two hours behind UK time on the clock and a full season ahead of it on the calendar – summer arriving there just as Europe’s switches off. This isn’t a new discovery. People have been escaping to the Cape for years. What’s changed is how good the villa scene along its coastline has become, which makes the case for going considerably stronger than simply “it’s warm there.” 

I’ll make that case anyway. Cape Town’s summer – November through

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