#Johannesburg - 868 posts

Last Thursday, South African scientists discovered the Omicron variant. By Friday morning, our lives were turned upside-down.

I've eaten a couple of meals at Syrian Rose, a new restaurant in Fordsburg. It's one of the best places in the city to eat outside.

Thorsten and I journeyed to Fourways for dinner at Roasty's Roadhouse, which opened about a year ago. Roasty's was delightful.

I hosted a jacaranda walk through Rosebank, together with the Johannesburg in Your Pocket Guide and the Redisson Red Hotel.

Thorsten and I bought bagels from Bird's Bagels in Blairgowrie for breakfast on Sunday. The bagels were fantastic.

I took a graffiti walk through Joburg, sponsored by the Goethe Institute. It was great to look at street art for the first time in a while.

I recently moved from Melville to Brixton, which sounds like it's not really a big deal but actually it is.

Last week I spent the night at Farmhouse@58, a chic accommodation spot just outside Joburg in the Cradle of Humankind.

I took a walk around Diepkloof, Soweto, last Sunday afternoon and shot a few pictures of the people and places we saw.

On Sunday morning I stopped by the Brixton Cemetery to take pictures of a cleanup event led by Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries.

I visited the Wits Art Museum to see the current exhibition of works from the Standard Bank African Art Collection. It was stunning.

I made a quick lunch run to Senhor Galo's, a brand-new roadhouse in an industrial section of Edenvale serving tasty Portuguese food.