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Simon Richmond (Author), Alistair Simmonds (Author)

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October 1, 2006 City Guide
At the southern tip of Africa, this city is an enticing taste of an entire continent. Somewhere between the good looks of this cosmopolitan city and the realities of its surrounding suburbs is the true Cape Town. Eat out at the local hot spots, surf the secret breaks, or drum a tabletop to the tempo of a resident jazz ensemble. This guide will help you dig beneath the glittering surface and find your own unique take on the Cape.

Climb Table Mountain – our dedicated chapter will help you decide when, how, why and with whom

Quaff A Steen – from grand old vineyards to workers’ wines, our special chapter on wine will tickle your palate

See Every Angle – take a grass-roots tour of the Cape Flats, or wander the colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap; we’ve got every option covered

Get Some Rhythm – catch some jazz in this city that pounds to a perpetual beat

Fly, Dive And Sail – our hand-picked activities listings will have you skimming across the waves, diving with the sharks or catching a bird’s-eye view of the Cape

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Writer and photographer, Simon Richmond honed his skills as a young journalist with the UK consumer magazine Which? before heading east to Tokyo in 1991. He spent two and a half years in Japan learning the language and working as an editor and writer for a major financial news organization on content that was drier than the Gobi, and only marginally more interesting. At the same time he travelled Japan, Asia and Australia, scribbling notes and writing travel features. All this paid off when he was hired by Rough Guides for his first gig updating peninsular Malaysia on their Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei book. Next came work on the first editions of Japan and Tokyo.

In 2000, the Rough Guide to Japan won the Travellex Travel Guidebook of the Year award. Since then Simon has written four more editions of the Japan guides the most recent published in Feb/March 2011. He's also written guidebooks to a host of other countries (Russia, South Africa, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Australia, India, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Iran) and cities (Cape Town, Sydney, Lisbon, Brussels and Antwerp), for all the major publishers including Lonely Planet, Time Out, Frommer's and Thames & Hudson.

In particular he's done a lot of adventure travel writing (a series of four books for the AA Adventure Travellers series on Australia, India, South America and Southeast Asia) and writing about food including contributions to restaurant guides to Sydney and London, including Time Out's annual London restaurant guide.

His travel features have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world, including in the UK's Independent, Guardian, Times, Daily Telegraph and Royal Geographical Society Magazine; and Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Australian Financial Review Magazine and Vogue Entertaining and Travel. He's also presented a travel documentary on Japan for BBC's Radio 4.

Simon currently splits his time between bases in London, Sydney and Boston, but mainly he seems to live out of his suitcase.

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