Our last stop on a recent road trip up to Bloemfontein to the Drakensberg and back via Golden Gate and Gariep Dam was a night at Cape Karoo Guest House. I’d seen the house on the website obviously and it looked quite cute but I had no huge expectations of a cottage in the town… Continue reading best of beaufort west
Growing up in the same household, exactly two years and one day apart in age, the thing we shared most, my sister and I, was the bathroom. More different we could not have been. While I would be chatting to Anna in the kitchen as she prepared supper, having done my homework next door at the… Continue reading On the sisterhood and our traveling pants
Tell me about your trip of a life time! It’s partly the anticipation of travel that makes it all so exciting – not so? The images you create, the foreign sights and tastes you foresee? Once you’ve arrived is almost passive in its enjoyment as you swiftly appreciate that you are one of a throng of thousands… Continue reading what was YOUR trip of a lifetime?
Book or Blog: What’s it to be? To write or to ski? Are you kidding? That’s not much of choice- at least not for me. It’s 4.05am. I’ve been awake since 2am. There are people who live out their lives at these sorts of crazy times. Shift workers, nurses and doctors, the early morning radio… Continue reading BOOK OR BLOG: what’s it to be?
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