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I spent the night at one of the African Penthouses at 87 Commissioner Street. It was a great night out in downtown Joburg.

Thorsten and I explored the old Johannesburg Gas Works several month ago. I don't recommend others doing this but I want to share the photos.

My Italian-American friend Josef and his Croatian-American mother Caroline took me on a tour of Mediterranean food spots in Joburg East.

I just returned from a week in Leisure Bay, a beach community on the KZN-Eastern Cape border, where I went to work on my memoir.

Arthur Bales, the oldest knitting and fabric shop in Joburg, is my favorite place to buy yarn. Arthur Bales is 120 years old in August 2022.

I visited the Lions Shul, South Africa's oldest synagogue, in Doornfontein. It's one of the few shuls still operating in the inner city.

Gail and I took a gallery-hopping tour through Rosebank with Thabo the Tourist, Joburg's charming guide for the arts.

We spent my birthday weekend houseboating the Vaal River, only an hour from Joburg, through Old Willow No. 7 Houseboat Charters.

I recently became a member of the Rand Club, the historic (formerly mens- and whites-only) club in downtown Joburg.

I attended a service at St. Nicholas of Japan, an Orthodox church in Brixton. The service was beautiful and got my mind off current events.

We took a food tour through Alexandra Township and learned lots of new things, including about a new "Mexi-kasi" restaurant there.

Last weekend I toured a series of public art installations around Joburg that were either created or inspired by late artist Andrew Lindsay.