A Soweto Art Tour with Thabo the Tourist
Last week my friend Chris and I went on a Soweto art tour with Toura Travel Therapy, a.k.a. Jozi art guide Thabo the Tourist. I've had countless wonderful cultural experiences in Soweto over the [...]
Eat Koeksisters with 2Summers
The South African news cycle has been a downer this week, to put it mildly, and I've been feeling pretty down myself. So I was grappling around for something positive to blog about, and [...]
Views From Johannesburg’s Historic Barbican Building
Last Friday I attended the re-launch of the Barbican Building, a century-old tower in downtown Joburg that is currently undergoing a revival. Like many of Joburg's historic downtown buildings, the Barbican has a checkered [...]
Steak Sandwiches and Stories at the Kentucky Milk Bar
This afternoon, Thorsten and I went for lunch at the Kentucky Milk Bar. Don't be deceived; the Kentucky Milk Bar is nowhere near Kentucky and it doesn't serve milk (although it used to -- [...]
A Hidden Gourmet Coffee Shop in the Oriental Plaza
Hidden at the back of a homeware shop, which is hidden in a dimly lit corridor deep inside the Oriental Plaza, you'll find Joburg's most talented self-taught barista. His name is Ahmed Angamia and [...]
15 Years of 2Summers in Joburg
This post first appeared in Johannesburg In Your Pocket. I published my first blog post on 6 June 2010, making this month the 15th anniversary of the 2Summers blog. (I didn’t actually move to [...]
A Comrades Marathon Spectator Survival Guide
Last weekend I drove to KwaZulu-Natal to watch the 98th Comrades Marathon, a.k.a. The Ultimate Human Race. The Comrades was a “down race” this year, meaning it started in Pietermaritzburg and proceeded “down” to [...]
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 [...]
Soweto Night Out: A Walk Through South Africa’s History
Last Thursday evening I went to Soweto with a group of journalists, tourists, and locals, and we did a simple yet revolutionary thing: We walked around at night. The walk was part of a [...]
St. Mary’s Cathedral: A Secret Church in Downtown Joburg
Every time I think I've visited all the historic churches in downtown Joburg, another one pops out of the woodwork. My latest "discovery" is the spectacular Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin, or St. [...]
Hunting for Fossils in the Cradle of Humankind
I recently learned a bonkers statistic: Around 40% of all of the hominid fossils ever discovered were unearthed in the Cradle of Humankind. In other words, close to half of all the known fossils [...]
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 [...]