Force of nature

There are few scenes as idyllic as luxuriating in an outdoor tub in the middle of the South African bush, G&T in hand, listening to the cacophony of birdsong and stridulating insects floating through the valley at dusk.

For Samantha and William Mellor, this calming ritual is the essence of Cabine du Cap, their weekend bolthole hidden away in the bush surrounds of the Western Cape’s Klein Karoo.

Immersed among rugged tufts of indigenous plants and undulating uninhabited landscape as far as