by 2summers | Feb 9, 2023 | Namibia
Namibia is a giant desert, famous for its towering sand dunes. If you’re familiar with African travel then you’ve probably heard of the Sossusvlei dunes — which have become dune celebrities, thanks to Instagram — and maybe Walvis Bay’s...
by 2summers | Feb 4, 2023 | Namibia
I have so much to tell you about Namibia. Our weeklong trip to this weird, wonderful country provided enough content to fill a book, and my head is throbbing with all the words (and pictures) clamoring to get out. But I can’t tell you everything at once so...
by 2summers | Jan 25, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings
It’s been two months since Thorsten and I joined a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation tour of three crazy houses on New Mountain Road in Linksfield Ridge. I have very limited time to write this post (I’m getting on a plane to Namibia tomorrow — more on...
by 2summers | Jan 11, 2023 | Arts and Culture, USA
Thorsten and I just returned to Joburg after a long trip to the U.S. — I was there for a month and Thorsten joined me for three weeks. We had a fun, emotional, hilarious, exciting, and utterly exhausting time. The tired but happy Blogitects (one architect, one...
by 2summers | Dec 1, 2022 | Hidden Joburg, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Museums and Buildings
My quest to visit all of the places featured in the Hidden Johannesburg book continues. With my recent trip to the Freemasons’ Hall, which I’m about to tell you about, I have now visited 20 of the 28 places in the book. This will be my final Hidden Joburg...