I spent last weekend doing fun things in downtown Joburg. This is fairly normal for me (although last weekend was particularly jam-packed); I live ten minutes from the inner city and I'm usually there [...]
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 [...]
The RMB Latitudes Art Fair, which happens annually at Shepstone Gardens (Joburg's quirkiest events venue), has been a place to see and be seen in the Joburg art world for several years. Maybe that's [...]
Last week I wrote a story about Brixton High Street. This week's story is about another iconic street: Melville 7th Street, my first Joburg love. The cluster of businesses in Melville Mansions, at [...]
I've been living in Brixton, one of Joburg's oldest suburbs, for nearly five years. I blog about Brixton all the time and I've led multiple walking tours here. But I hardly ever go to [...]
I've already written about our roadtrip to the central Drakensberg and how nice it was to unplug during our seven-day stay there. But I haven't yet told you about the spectacular hikes we took. [...]
Last week, Thorsten and I went on holiday in the Drakensberg. View of Cathkin Peak, a famous mountain in the central Drakensberg, from the patio of our friend's holiday house. "On holiday" [...]
Recently, after a couple of weeks playing tour guide for my dad and his partner, I spent three days at an Airbnb outside Simonstown. Simonstown (also known as Simon's Town), about 45 minutes southeast [...]
Last weekend, Thorsten and I celebrated Valentine's Day at the Donkey Dairy. This was kind of an accident; we generally don't go out of our way to recognize Valentine's Day as a couple. But [...]
A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon a post about flower farms in Gauteng and became obsessed with the idea of picking my own flowers on a farm. I spoke about it to [...]
Even though I only live five minutes away from Melville, my former Joburg home of 11 years, I've become pretty out of the loop when it comes to what's happening there. I don't get [...]
There's no denying the Jozi CBD has a bad reputation, and that reputation is not totally undeserved. There are many places in downtown Joburg that are somewhere between mildly scary and terrifying to walk [...]