No shortage of theatre fare during these winter months – world class...
There are so many excellent and varied productions on offer over the next 6 weeks. With a wide choice from ballet to comedy to drama, our theatres offer excellent value and first class productions....
View ArticleCurrent Art Exhibitions in the Parks & CBD Galleries
Wilma Cruise’ s exhibition The Alice Diaries shows at Circa until 25th August. Exploring the liminal space between animals and humans, Cruise draws on texts from Alice in Wonderland and Alice through...
View ArticleWill the new development in Newtown help to revitalize the area?
In 2011 the old potato sheds behind the Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg were demolished to make way for the first major retail and leisure investment in the city for a while. Planned as a...
View ArticleRecycle, re-use and reduce
Ever wondered how long things take to decompose? Well, apparently it depends largely on whether they’re decomposing in a viable compost heap filled with hungry organisms, or in a landfill that gets...
View ArticleUpcoming visual arts events in the parks and Jozi inner city
Exhibition Invitation Faith47’s Fragments of a Burnt History is showing at David Krut Projects Parkwood from 8 November until early 2013. Faith47, a street artist based in Cape Town, who has a...
View ArticleLiz at Lancaster has been honored in the 2013 Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice...
We’ve been informed that we’ve been chosen as a winner in the B&Bs and Inns category by TripAdvisor in its 2013 Travelers’ Choice® awards. At no 25 we just scraped in, but we are one of only 2...
View ArticleTalking to plants works!
In November last year, parts of the Johannesburg Parks region were hit by a devastating hail storm - large hail stones fell with a ferocious intensity. They shredded leaves of agapanthus and...
View ArticleEach season brings new colour to the garden
Although our oak tree (which is the origin of Liz at Lancaster’s acorn logo) is dropping leaves at an alarming rate causing Thandie, Zac, Alick and Catherine the Sisyphian task of never-ending leaf...
View ArticleLiz at Lancaster has AA Quality Assured Superior badge renewed
Our AA assessor gave a glowing report after her annual visit to assess us for the AA Quality Assured Accommodation . Here are some excerpts for her report: ‘Following their 2012 Certificate of...
View ArticleFor a great travel experience take the train from Joburg to Cape Town
We have had a number of guests who travel by rail either from Cape Town or down to Cape town. A recent guest wrote a review about the Shosholoza Premier Classe on Tripadvisor:...
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