A Staycation at Melville Mansions
Back in May, I wrote a post about the shops in Melville Mansions on 7th Street in Melville. This big pink building (very close in color to the Flamingo Palace) at the corner of [...]
A Mid-week Escape to Magaliesburg: Sima Kade
Thorsten and I had been wanting to stay at Sima Kade Bush Retreat, an eco-lodge in the foothills of the Magaliesberg Mountains, for ages. It was on Thorsten's radar because of the architecture; Sima [...]
A Three-Day Break in Simonstown
Recently, after a couple of weeks playing tour guide for my dad and his partner, I spent three days at an Airbnb outside Simonstown. Simonstown (also known as Simon's Town), about 45 minutes southeast [...]
How to Explore Joburg With Older People
My dad, Tenney, and his longtime partner, Debbie, visited Joburg from America a couple of weeks ago. Dad hadn't been here since 2013 and Debbie had never been, so I was excited for their [...]
4 Days at Santa Nature Reserve in Dullstroom
This is a quick photo story about a fantastic long weekend we recently spent at Santa Nature Reserve, a privately owned nature reserve/fishing estate in Dullstroom. Dullstroom is a tourist town in Mpumalanga province, [...]
Valentine’s Weekend at the Donkey Dairy
Last weekend, Thorsten and I celebrated Valentine's Day at the Donkey Dairy. This was kind of an accident; we generally don't go out of our way to recognize Valentine's Day as a couple. But [...]
Throwback to Rosendal, a Lesotho Stopover
In April 2025, Thorsten and I spent two nights in the town of Rosendal on our way home from Semonkong, Lesotho. This trip is seriously old news by now, but I'm blogging about it [...]
Mpumalanga, Part 2: Glamping at Kokiville Homestead
As discussed previously – what now seems like an eternity ago – Thorsten and I took a road trip through Mpumalanga province over the Christmas holidays. Our final stop on that trip was Kokiville [...]
Meandering Through Mpumalanga: The Panorama Route
In December, the Blogitects embarked on an 11-day journey across Mpumalanga province (with a brief interlude in Eswatini). We spent the first few days in the southern half of the Panorama Route. Thorsten standing [...]
Clivias in Bloom at Random Harvest Indigenous Nursery
A few days ago, during a fit of low motivation, I asked my Instagram followers to suggest potential topics for Joburg-related blog posts. Thank you again to everyone who submitted suggestions -- you made [...]
Stuurmansfontein: A Corbelled House in the Great Karoo
It was a blustery winter afternoon on my 50th birthday. The Blogitects were headed to Stuurmansfontein, an iconic corbelled house in the middle of the Great Karoo, and I was super excited. But the [...]
The Blogitects Roadtrip to Augrabies Falls
As mentioned previously, Thorsten and I (a.k.a. "the Blogitects": one blogger + one architect) recently got back from a roadtrip to the Northern Cape to celebrate my 50th birthday. I had never properly explored [...]