Looking out the plane window flying into Windhoek, the landscape reminded me of Western Australia …
Durbs
Durbs (Durban to the uninitiated) is big. Coming in through the extensive industrial sections …
The Mountain Kingdom
The next stop and also the next country, albeit for only one day, was the …
Cock-up in Kokstad
I write this through broken reading glasses. You will soon find out why. We have …
on the way to Coffee Bay
The South African backpacker circuit is dominated by Germans and Dutch, but you meet people …
Living it up on the Wild Coast
Two long bus trips have taken us into and then out of the city of …
Conversations in the Wilderness
The most important tool of the intervention thus far has proven to be fellow …
Sam says
Sam says there are a lot of Africans in Africa
the back of the bus
I write this from the back of a backpacker’s bus heading from Hermanus, a sleepy …
not all smooth sailing..
There had always been some apprehension about taking a child with special needs around Africa …