by 2summers | Sep 2, 2020 | Food and Drink, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre
Last week, when I published a post about my cycling tour with Honest Travel, I mentioned our visit to the Bertrams Inner City Farm. I decided that visit was far too brief to give the farm proper justice in my blog. So I went back again yesterday. Walking the Bertrams...
by 2summers | Aug 27, 2020 | Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Tours
On Tuesday, I climbed onto a single-speed bike and took a cycling and food tour through the eastern portion of downtown Joburg. It was a perfect day in the city — one of those days when all your problems and stresses magically disappear and everything in the...
by 2summers | Jul 3, 2020 | Boxing, COVID-19, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg
I’ve been working out with George Khosi at the Hillbrow Boxing Club for many years. Up until the lockdown started I’d been going to Hillbrow about three times a week, every week, since 2012. George Khosi, coach of the Hillbrow Boxing Club. I shot this...
by 2summers | Apr 3, 2019 | Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings
Let me tell you about that time I ran to the top of Ponte City. Looking up at Ponte City, the tallest residential building in Africa (at least for now). Every few months Dlala Nje and Microadventure Tours co-host the Ponte Challenge, which invites people to gather at...
by 2summers | Nov 7, 2018 | Arts and Culture, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings
In Hillbrow, at the corner of Joubert and Sam Hancock Streets, is a striking Art Deco building with a strange, ominous-sounding name: Transwerke. Transwerke, and the many buildings like it in Joburg, are a perfect illustration of this city’s strange,...
by 2summers | Jul 6, 2017 | Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds, The Melville Cat
Before reading on, I suggest reading Part 1 of Abby the Tiger’s story. Humans call me Abby. But they used to call me Tiger. Abby, formerly Tiger, a well-traveled cat. Some of you may remember me — I’ve told my story here before. I was born in...