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. [...]
Dazzling Art and Architecture in Bilbao, Spain
I still haven't finished telling you about my gallivant around Europe, which happened back in March and April and is fast becoming ancient history. I'm going to keep on peppering you with one or [...]
A Tearful Parade Through Hillbrow
I'm struggling with this post. I keep writing stuff and then deleting it because I don't know what to say about Hillbrow that I haven't said before. I've been blogging about Hillbrow since 2011 [...]
Street Art Sightings in Quirky Munich
Thorsten and I recently spent three days in Munich, Germany, at the beginning of our whirlwind European trip. We went to Munich because it was a logical place to meet up with Thorsten's kids, [...]
A Special Tour in Bulte (Noordgesig): Sign Up Now
Regular readers will know that I've written a couple of posts about Noordgesig -- affectionately called Bulte, which means "Hills" in Afrikaans -- lately (see here and here). Last year I befriended Lavinia and [...]
Tuesday Night at the Sawubona Music Jam
Last Tuesday I put on my big-girl pants -- or, more accurately, my young-girl pants -- and stayed out past midnight to attend the Sawubona Music Jam in Chiwelo, Soweto. I've known about the [...]
The Blogitects Do Limpopo: Leshiba Wilderness
Leshiba Wilderness was the third stop on the Blogitects' Limpopo road trip. Read about our first and second stops. Like last week, I don't know how to start writing this post because I don't [...]
The Blogitects Do Limpopo: Magoebaskloof
Magoebaskloof was the first stop on the Blogitects’ Limpopo road trip. Read about our second and third stops. As I mentioned in my previous post, Thorsten and I (a.k.a. the Blogitects) took a 10-day road trip [...]
A Morning in Noordgesig
I recently connected with Fabian and Lavinia Otto during a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation tour of Coronationville and Bosmont. Fabian and Lavinia were our guides for the Coronationville/Bosmont tour but they actually live in Noordgesig, [...]
The Spectacular Brixton Light Festival, Revisited
Last weekend I attended the Brixton Light Festival (hereafter referred to as the BLF) for the second consecutive year. I wrote a comprehensive post about the BLF last year, so in the days leading [...]
A Quick Tour of Brixton Monuments
Regular readers of this blog know that my boyfriend, Thorsten, is an architect. You might not know that he is also an artist, and he recently created a beautiful series of prints portraying historic [...]
Joburg Map Books Come to Life Through John Phalane
About a year ago, as I wandered the halls of the Turbine Art Fair, an annual fair featuring the works of emerging South African artists, I stopped short in front of some poster-sized pictures [...]