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African Kitsch

Another weekend, another excursion. Some tourism is necessary to remind yourself that Johannesburg is not only leafy green suburbs connected by winding highways leading inevitably to shopping malls. Or is it?
One Sunday we chose to go to the Rosebank rooftop market located on the roof of, well, a shopping mall. However, all [...]

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Well, actually no tigers, and no bears (who needs bears anyway, if you’re from Canada) and frankly, only one lion. But still! Wild Animals! Safari!
We celebrated a first free weekend by going to Pilanesberg National Park, a couple of hours drive from Johannesburg (add an hour for sitting on a road, waiting for [...]

New Horizons

I moved to South Africa two months ago, and have been a very bad blogger since then (and before then too, but it’s hard to know what to write about indecision and not knowing where you’re going). It seems, when you start up in a new place that it’s difficult to jump straight into [...]