For Louise, because I owe you a story… Forget the lushness of the forest; the shades of green so recklessly plentiful. Forget the determination of people in Borneo; houses build to defy the ocean currents and the steep rock faces. Forget all of it, I want to write about leeches. Having spent so much time avoiding them, thinking about them and over-reacting to them, it … Continue reading Borneo: I was a different woman two leech bites ago
I want to start writing this blog with the words “Poor Tish”. Not that Tish deserves my pity (twice now she’s seen the Northern Lights so I double hate her) but some unfortunate misadministration laid ruin to her plans to visit Amsterdam earlier this month. Amsterdam was a city alive to me, it was as if the city fed from the people who visited her- … Continue reading My top five Amsterdam highlights
I have a hair trigger reflex when it comes to adding new destinations to my travel bucket list. It’s as if the travel monster necessitates regular feeding although it’s hunger will never be satiated and of course, in a desire to please, I myself am all too eager to feed it. This past weekend, after spending the day at the Korean Food and Film Festival, … Continue reading There’s a Korean in my backyard
Upon arriving at the Hanglip Mountain Lodge I am greeted by a giraffe, well actually the bum of a giraffe who is sipping from a small pond, it’s long legs splayed awkwardly, neck craned at an impossible angle. Immediately, I decide that the giraffe will be my friend, scratch that, best friend. I unimaginatively name said giraffe Giraffo. Giraffo does not take kindly to our … Continue reading All things wild and wonderful in the Waterberg Mountains
Falling in love with Namibia Continue reading Namibia: The sand and the sea
Getting to know the pyramids both great and relatively unknown Continue reading Walk like an Egyptian
Finding paradise at Sharm el Sheik Continue reading Egypt: Sharm el Sheik and me
A sunrise not to be forgotten in Luxor Continue reading Luxor from the sky: Hot air ballooning over the Nile
Cairo, where I am at home and a tourist at the same time Continue reading Cairo: The chaos and the charm
Stillness on the river Nile at sunset Continue reading Aswan: A felucca ride at sunset along the Nile
Existential Musings of a Mad Woman 