by 2summers | Apr 28, 2015 | Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
The Commonwealth Games, an Olympics-like sporting competition involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, are headed to Durban in 2022. The 2022 host city won’t be officially announced until September 2015, but it turns out that Durban is the only...
by 2summers | Aug 18, 2014 | Eastern Cape, Western Cape
I’ve already mentioned my birthday bungee jump a couple of times (see posts here and here), but it’s taken me more than a month to edit the video footage from the GoPro camera I wore during the jump. I’m finally ready to tell the story. I jumped...
by 2summers | Jul 9, 2014 | Western Cape
I’m in Knysna this week, as a guest of the Knysna Oyster Festival. When I originally got this invitation a few months ago, I accepted because I’d heard Knysna is lovely and I knew it would be a great place to spend my birthday. I didn’t plan to eat...
by 2summers | Apr 22, 2014 | Arts and Culture, Instagram, Johannesburg Day Trips, North West
Nearly four years after my move from America to South Africa, I’m still disturbed by holiday season-inversion. Celebrating Christmas in summer is surreal, and I will never adjust to my July birthday — which used to be a summer rite of passage — now...