Tonight I head back to the Joburg airport to fly to Athens. My last couple days in Joburg have been pretty laid back, with lots of time for reading and hanging out with the staff at the Purple Palms Lodge (John, Frankie, Daniel and a black cat that likes cornish meat pies). With my bags […]
Yesterday I rolled into Knysna around 2pm, welcomed by a misty rain and surprisingly light activity on Main Street. After four solid hours of Cape Jazz knocking around in my head, I was ready for the pleasant sounds of silence, waves crashing on the beach, and maybe some Brahms. I found a comfy local restaurant […]
All I can say is, “Wow!”
Being someone who prefers to be in sight of the coast at all times, I wasn’t sure what to expect from a drive into wine country. But the landscape is the most beautiful I have seen in South Africa, and I ran my camera’s battery down to nothing taking pictures […]
The Waterfront area of downtown Cape Town is probably the most touristy place in this country, but it also has gobs of live music, which is why I’ve found myself wandering through the sea of vacationers and shoppers three times already since coming to Cape Town. The two jazz clubs at the Waterfront are the […]
My stay in Cape Town has revolved around the southern cape area known as Simons Town. Like most of the towns that freckle the land mass south of Cape Town, Simons Town looks and feels like southern California. Maybe Malibu. Lots of stucco and lots of red-tile roofing, narrow beach roads, beautiful views of the […]
The last couple days have been pretty pleasant…long drives down the coast of South Africa from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town. The landscape has ranged from lush greenery (like Seattle) to dry mountains speckled with shrubs and trees. Cape Town is a huge sprawl of suburbs around the city center, but the journey finally ended […]
I had a pleasant stay in Joburg, but it felt good to hop a flight to Port Elizabeth today. PE, as it’s called by many of the locals, is a beach town jam-packed with tourists for the holiday season. While I don’t know that I will find much in the way of nightlife or jazz, […]
Christmas Day I met up with my South African friend, Ridhwan, to enjoy some great food and great conversation with his extended family. It was a blast! All I can say about the food (without rambling) is that it was really, really, rediculously good (especially the marinade on the lamb!) and there was a lot […]
Today is December 24th! It’s amazing how time has flown by, and that 2006 is almost done. The trip from Nairobi was decent, though departure was delayed over an hour. Also, I have to say that the Republic of South Africa didn’t make a very good first impression with their immigration processing. Despite having about […]