2021

The Riviera Hotel, the Grottos, and Grotto Beach By Dr. Robin Lee The grottos, Grotto Beach and Piet-se-Bos today The earliest written reference I can find to the grottos in Hermanus is in a Memoir by Nancy Okes (nee Napier) whose family traveled from Cape Town every year in the […]

SPEAKER: DR ROBIN LEE DATE: 20 AUGUST 2021 (10.00) The coastline of greater Hermanus (an area from Voëlklip to Fisherhaven) has attracted painters and writers since it was first settled in the 1850s. There were several reasons for this, including the natural beauty of the area, with ocean views and […]

A Presentation by Robin Lee to U3A: Overberg Monday 16 August 2021 at 10.00 Few novelists have their description of the period they lived in accepted as the name for the whole age. But in 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald published a book of short stories entitled “Tales of the Jazz […]

Covid permitting, the British and Irish Lions will be in Hermanus in July, training at the High School grounds. Great news! But the All Blacks were here 72 years ago and in 2019 I wrote an article about their visit. ALL BLACKS IN HERMANUS SEVENTY YEARS AGO BY DR ROBIN […]