This weekend's New York Times travel section featured Cape Town in it's “36 Hours In . . .” feature. I’ve no idea why anyone traveling to Cape Town would spend so little time there.
One can quibble with some of writer Michael Wines’ choices. And his perplexing analogy at the beginning of the piece. (“Cape Town is South Africa's Los Angeles to Johannesburg's New York) is crazy on so many levels it boggles the imagination. (Joburg as New York? Cape Town as the vapid, self-indulgent landscape of LA? It makes me wonder which Wines understands less, the US or South Africa.) Still, it is nice to see the United States’ “paper of record” feature Cape Town in this way and to be reminded of some of my own past trips to one of my favorite cities on earth.
