by 2summers | Feb 24, 2021 | Johannesburg, Parks/Nature Reserves
Last weekend I took a walk through the Harvey Nature Reserve on Linksfield Ridge. Walking on this ridge is an interesting reminder of Joburg’s crazy geological history. Thorsten heading east on Linksfield Ridge. I am obviously not a geologist. But here is my...
by 2summers | Feb 18, 2021 | Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Markets/Shopping
I recently went with my friends Manuela and Gail to Diagonal Street, a historic Joburg shopping street. Diagonal Street — known for its fabric, blanket, and muti (traditional medicine) shops — is so named because it runs on a diagonal for three blocks...
by 2summers | Feb 15, 2021 | Ekurhuleni (East Rand), Food and Drink, Johannesburg, Roadhouses of Gauteng
In my first roadhouse post, I mentioned I’d been meaning to do a roadhouse series for years but never got around to it. One of the reasons it took so long is because documenting roadhouses — at least in the way I want to document them — is not easy...
by 2summers | Feb 11, 2021 | Food and Drink, Johannesburg, Sandton and Surrounds
Tenth in an occasional series about my favorite coffee shops in Joburg. Remember the good old days, when I used to meet people for coffee in interesting places and then blog about it? I’m ready to bring those days back. Last week the Johannesburg in Your Pocket...
by 2summers | Feb 1, 2021 | Ekurhuleni (East Rand), Food and Drink, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Roadhouses of Gauteng
I’ve been planning to blog about South African roadhouses — the equivalent of American fast-food drive-ins — since 2015, when I ate lunch at the Casbah Roadhouse in Brakpan during a Joburg Photowalkers outing. The Casbah in August 2015. I was...
by 2summers | Jan 27, 2021 | COVID-19, Emotions, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
I’ve been trying to publish this post for the past two days. I painstakingly crank out a paragraph, stare at it, read it back a few times, doze off in my chair, scroll Facebook for 20 minutes, read the paragraph again, delete it in disgust. I’ve done this...