| A fantastic little A5-sized book, listing all sorts of | | | | Johannesburg which produces the Gilroy Serious dark |
| information about South Africa, from info on the | | | | ale was judged the best beer in the Southern |
| government and economy or famous places and | | | | Hemisphere and the second best in the world at a |
| people, and World Heritage Sites, interesting towns, | | | | blind tasting. And under disappointing it lists Castle |
| and lots of snippets of cool facts. | | | | Lager stating "nearly as bad as the best American |
| For instance, did you know that the first motion | | | | beer". |
| picture footage ever recorded was in South Africa? | | | | Under best places to chill it lists Long Street in Cape |
| Or did you know that our first post office was a | | | | Town, 4th avenue Parkhurst, Florida Road Durban, |
| tree, now a national monument known as the Post | | | | and Beach Road in Port Elizabeth amongst others. It |
| Office Tree in Mossel Bay? Or did you know that | | | | also says don't bother with East London, "Unless you |
| with 5 million objects, the National Cultural History | | | | are looking for a hooker in a grimy port city", Melville, |
| Museum in Pretoria has the largest collection or | | | | "Unless you are looking for drugs", Durban beachfront |
| artifacts and records in South Africa or that the | | | | "unless you like crowds and hobos asking for cash" or |
| Voortrekkker Monument's granite frieze depicting the | | | | Bloemfontein "Unless you like being bored out of your |
| heroics of the trekkers on 27 bas relief panels, is the | | | | skull, other than for the fabulous Mystic Boer". |
| largest in the world? Or that the kori bustard found in | | | | From museums, monuments, battlefields, heritage |
| South Africa is the world largest flying bird? | | | | sites, arts and crafts, music, dance, theatre, |
| The book makes suggestions on what to eat, drink, | | | | literature, animals, beaches, cities and towns: this |
| and where to visit. And it suggests what not to do. | | | | book has an opinion, cool fact and a rating for them |
| Under beer it tells us that Gilroy's Brewery in | | | | all. |
