Botswana on a Budget: Driving to the Okavango Delta
Recently, I told you about my September visit to Planet Baobab in Botswana. But I didn't explain the larger context of our Botswana journey, so let me back up a bit. Many months ago, [...]
5 Quirky Joburg Places I Like
Lately, whenever I meet someone and they tell me how much they appreciate my blog and what I do for Joburg, I feel ashamed. I've hardly posted this year, and posts about Joburg have [...]
48 Hours of Magic at Planet Baobab, Botswana
Bless me, dear readers, for I have sinned. It's been more than two months since my last blog post. Yoh, guys, it's been a year. Anyway, things are finally looking up. I've just returned [...]
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 [...]
Sunday Morning at 44 Stanley Avenue
How have I never blogged about 44 Stanley Avenue, the coolest shopping and dining complex in Joburg, which is only five minutes from my house? The entrance to 44 Stanley Avenue. I guess it's [...]
Photos From Braamfontein’s Indwe Park
I've been dreadfully uninspired lately, struggling to think of anything I want to blog about despite having a long list of great ideas (many of which you, my readers, provided in September). I'm finding [...]
Hidden Joburg: The Home of Edoardo Villa
A couple of years ago I started a "Hidden Joburg" series -- a quest to visit all 28 places in the book Hidden Johannesburg, by Paul Duncan and Alain Proust. Then I got sidetracked. [...]
Jozi People: Sipho Mackenzie, Fashion Pioneer
I recently bumped into Sipho Mackenzie at a party. Although we'd met a few months before, I was so dazzled by Sipho's look (the youngsters would call it a lewk) that I couldn't immediately [...]
Mtunzini: A Beachy, Foresty Place in the Shade
Our recent visit to St. Lucia was a stop along the way to the final destination of our KwaZulu-Natal road trip: Mtunzini, a coastal town off the N2 highway, where we spent five days [...]
Two Days in St. Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal
St. Lucia, the tourist town along South Africa's northern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) coast -- not to be confused with St. Lucia the Caribbean island -- has near-mythical status among South Africans. The town is completely [...]
Afro-Latin Flavors (and Fun) at Artüro in Melville
Artüro, a new-ish restaurant on 7th Street in Melville, appears Mexican at first glance. As someone who is always on the lookout for Mexican food in Joburg, I was excited to check out Artüro [...]
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 [...]