by 2summers | Apr 20, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings
This is a quick post advising Joburg art-lovers to go to the Everard Read Gallery in Rosebank to check out the beautiful mosaic in the courtyard. It was made in Brixton. The courtyard mosaic at Everard Read, created by Bronwen Findlay and her team. The hadeda is, of...
by 2summers | Apr 12, 2023 | Food and Drink, Johannesburg, Markets/Shopping, Pretoria
Centurion, an anonymous no man’s land between Joburg and Pretoria, is home to a magical place called Buyuk Chamlija: a self-described “Socio Eco Techno Village” that grows fat, juicy pomegranates and has a Turkish restaurant shaped like a beehive. I...
by 2summers | Mar 31, 2023 | Food and Drink, Johannesburg
In a city/country that seems to be full of bad news, here’s a nice story: A man named Bev with no formal culinary training cooks hamburgers in his house during covid, starts selling said burgers to his friends, sells out repeatedly, opens a kitchen at a local...
by 2summers | Mar 28, 2023 | Eastern Cape, Lodging, Parks/Nature Reserves, Western Cape
Read Quirky South Africa Part 1, about padstals, and Quirky South Africa Part 2, about Bethulie and the Gariep Dam. I was talking to some South African friends about my visit to the Garden Route recently, and one of them said: “Maybe this is a dumb question. But...
by 2summers | Mar 22, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Hidden Joburg, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Museums and Buildings
This post is not part of my Hidden Joburg series, which I started last year (and will eventually return to). But it should be. St. Alban’s Anglican Mission Church in Ferreirasdorp would have been a perfect addition to the Hidden Joburg book and I don’t...