Pretoria (Category) - 29 posts

At 6:15 a.m. on Saturday morning, we arrived at the Pretoria Boeremark in Silverton. It was already packed with shoppers and eaters.

I spent an afternoon photographing the Pretoria jacarandas with Johannesburg in Your Pocket and the Joburg Photowalkers.

Fiver and I went to Buyuk Chamlija, a "socio eco techno village" in Centurion, to pick pomegranates and eat Turkish food.

Ludwig's Roses, a massive rose farm just north of Pretoria, is a delightful place to spend an afternoon sniffing flowers.

I'm fascinated by South African roadhouses, the equivalent of U.S. drive-ins. My first roadhouse blog feature is the Lollipop in Pretoria.

NOTE: I originally wrote this post before January 6th, when pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol and mounted the biggest threat to American …

I went back to visit the Wonderboom Nature Reserve in Pretoria after ten years away. It was just as delightful as I remembered.

I visited the Voortrekker Monument on 16 December, the Day of Reconciliation, a public holiday that used to be called the Day of the Vow.

I made a pilgrimmage up to Herbert Baker Street in Pretoria to photograph the famous white jacaranda trees. The flowers put on a show.

If you’re new to this blog series and don’t know what’s happening with South Africa’s 21-day (now 35-day) lockdown, my first post has all the details. Or read …

I took a one-night trip to the Dinokeng Game Reserve in northern Gauteng. While not quite the Kruger or the Pilanesberg, Dinokeng is a great quick Jozi getaway.

The Long March to Freedom National Historic Monument in Pretoria is a collection of hundreds of life-size sculptures of heroes in the South African struggle for …