Our drive to Kosi Forest Lodge took us just over 7 hours and we expected the roads to be bad and full of pot holes. To our surprise, it ended up being the best road we had both ever been on. Mostly completely straight, almost freshly tarred the entire way and an absolute pleasure of …
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Antbear Lodge
**Disclaimer: Although hosted, all opinions and views on our stay are completely my own and my honest opinion. Our stay at Antbear was nothing short of incredible. There are no words to describe how relaxed you feel as you turn onto that dirt road, let alone after putting your bags down on the floor of …
Patch Strips: Read + Win
For the entire month of July, I felt really left out of the whole #PlasticFreeJuly & the ways that everyone was somehow positively contributing towards the environment, whether it by be eliminating plastic straws, investing in bamboo cutlery sets etc. and so when I was contacted by Patch Strips SA and I was offered a …
Product Review: Wow Jude Face Cloths
WOOOOOOOW, Jude! One thing I want my blog to do is share brands and products that I genuinely love and support, so I will be sharing a lot of my local finds that I really love with you. What is better than #SupportingLocal? I have known about Wow Jude for a few months through the …
Brand Review: Lavender & Lime
This brand is so close to my heart simply because I have been a customer of theirs since finding them at the Cow House Market in Pretoria in 2017 while I was there for the week. There is nothing that I love more than being in the kitchen; baking or cooking up a storm. And …
My First Blog Post Who am I?
Maybe you know me, maybe you don’t. This blog post will give you a bit of an insight as to who I am. My name is Shae Leigh Schwenk and I was born in Cape Town. I grew up and spent most of my childhood in the Upper Highway Area of Durban (Kloof/Hillcrest) and have …
Shae Schwenk Blog 