This series on our travels will be a return to my home country, South Africa. We are so fortunate to live in a country absolutely blessed with incredible beauty. One of the best-known natural phenomena in this country is the Spring flowers in Namaqualand.

While listening to the radio a couple of weeks ago I learnt that South Africa had been voted the most beautiful country in the world out of 20 which had been nominated. What a privilege for us to live here.