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Before You Die: Take Afternoon Tea at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town by Gillian Ivory

A thoroughly confusing experience, you’ll wonder whether you are in India under the Raj or Africa under the British. But the gardens are stunning and you’ll fight over the last cucumber sandwich. Gillian Wear

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