Next on our tour of Cape Town hotels was The Silo (rooms from R24,000 or £1,000, theroyalportfolio.com), which I can only describe as being like a luxury hotel perched on top of the Tate Modern. The Zeitz Mocca (zeitzmocaa.museum) is a contemporary African art gallery, and its location and architecture are the draw. We went to visit its Gaudi-like interior, marvelling at brilliant installations and the building itself. The windows are vast convex diamonds that look out over the V&A Waterfront to one side, and out to Lion’s Head and Seapoint on the other. We were lucky enough to stay in an eighth-floor premium suite with a huge sitting room and bathroom. While Gran painted the view, I took a long bath looking out over the city as the sun went down.