Back to Bethulie and the Royal Hotel
Six years ago, during a wild road trip in a van full of bloggers, I spent a night at the Royal Hotel in Bethulie. I was enchanted: Bethulie is a charming, tiny South African town and the Royal Hotel was one of the quirkiest guesthouses I’d ever stayed in. I...
MiniMark Wholesale Discount House: Fabric Heaven on Diagonal Street
I recently went with my friends Manuela and Gail to Diagonal Street, a historic Joburg shopping street. Diagonal Street — known for its fabric, blanket, and muti (traditional medicine) shops — is so named because it runs on a diagonal for three blocks...
Valentine’s Date at the Fireplace Roadhouse
Second in my Roadhouses of Gauteng series. Browse all of my roadhouse posts or view a map of the roadhouses I’ve visited. In my first roadhouse post, I mentioned I’d been meaning to do a roadhouse series for years but never got around to it. One...
Visiting the Voortrekker Monument on the Day of Reconciliation
Two days ago, on December 16th, I went with Thorsten of Dagwood sandwich fame to visit the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. The Voortrekker Monument. I’ve been thinking hard over the past 48 hours about how to frame this post. The Voortrekker Monument is...
Heather Mason
I’m an American writer/blogger/photographer living a quirky life in Johannesburg. Follow along as I explore Johannesburg, South Africa, and the rest of the world.
