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Cairo to Cape Town on a bicycle
Let me tell you about the most amazing and crazy thing I’ve done in my whole life: A bicycle tour through Africa called Tour d’ Afrique. Yes, I cycled though Africa on a bicycle starting in January and ending in May 2008. Four months, another 59 brave souls, and a trip through which I was going to meet the friendliest people in the world: All the people in the places we visited in Africa!
Cairo was foggy a ...
CONNIE MYBURGH in Italy
It’s been a long walk since I was born and bred in Namibia, then moved to Cape Town and at the mature age of 42, moved to Italy. My idea was “a year overseas – hopefully Germany or Switzerland, but I got Italy and yes, after 10 years, I am still here and I guess, forever! Italy gave me a wonderful new life.
I knew very little about Italy except the PASTA stories. I knew they speak Italian, but I never kne ...
Cape Town Fish Market (central London)
Tucked away in the heart of central London, down a cobbled side road, The Cape Town Fish Market is a gastronomic adventure, exploring the flavours of South Africa.A fervent patron of the chain back home in South Africa, I relished in the thought of sampling its savoury offerings once again. Upon arrival, I was amazed at the sheer enormity of the restaurant – spanning two floors in its central London locatio ...
COMING HOME
In January 2003 I was made redundant from my job in London. It came as a complete shock – I hadn’t realized how much the ripple effects of 9/11 would eventually catch up with me. I started job hunting, but in a depressed market there wasn’t much I found exciting.A few months later, I decided to return to South Africa to see what options were available. It took me six weeks to pack up. I arrived back on my h ...
COME ON SUMMER
Remember that old TV advert for the cricket? Come on summer, come on! This used to be our cue that summer is coming and that means that it was time for a braai! For us Londoners in the absence of this signal we are left to our instincts to judge when this time comes and in recent times we can't really rely on the weather to tell us when summer is supposed to be here. Old man weather plays his cards very clo ...
