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Knowing the place for the first time

Just a few weeks after Clarens, we are in George visiting Vaughn’s mom on the way to the Grahamstown festival. George turns out to be much nicer than we thought, and Desiree and Rose entertain us 24 hours a day with drives in the mountains and wale-wat...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, November 25, 2005

Amsterdam 2004

We were about to go home (to South Africa, that is) and I still hadn't been to Amsterdam. That's just sinful. So when Vaughn got grumpy and refused to join me, I decide to go on my own. I booked into a place that looks fantastic on the web... less so i...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, September 03, 2004

London/Paris 2003

Hotel Words fail me once again as I grasp for vocabulary to describe the humidity-soaked pleasure of my third trip to Paris. Somehow, I manage to get fantastic rooms in a hotel with tiny balconies overlooking a street where Paris’ Friday night skate t...

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Feeling at home in Camden Town

Since South Africa we have realised that if we are going to stay in London we really have to exploit what it has to offer. Living in Beckenham, we are so far removed from the real London that we might as well be back in South Africa. We start looking f...

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, March 05, 2003

South African Road Trip

A wonderful holiday road trip. We stop by the Karoo National Park on our way to Cape Town and have a memorable, if expensive, meal of Karoo lamb and Cape wine. The next morning we’re up early to finish the trip to CT, but before we leave we watch the r...

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, January 01, 2003

Winter 2002 - Beckenham

Moscow State Circus There’s not much to do in the South so we jump at the chance to go to the Moscow State Circus in Crystal Palace. Thank heavens it isn’t one of those circus acts that drags half-human animals around the world in cages; it’s all perf...

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, December 01, 2002

Barcelona 2002

The Aquarium Well, an aquarium is an aquarium. But it was fun and I took the opportunity to do lots of stupid, childish things. Gaudi The pictures can tell the Gaudi story. Vaughn was in his element. Quotidian views Pedestrian views just walki...

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, November 03, 2002

Paris 2002

When Calan comes over to stay with us, we decide it is time to give Paris a second chance. This time, I force myself to blurt out high-school French, and we have a fantastic time trying to navigate French menus and strolling around the streets at a con...

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, October 01, 2002

Beckenham - no relation

Vaughn partners with another 3D animator and we move to the rather isolated South London (well, not quite London at all) town of Beckenham. It’s quite pretty, with a little church and graveyard. Its claim to fame is that it is the hometown of David Bow...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, June 01, 2002

Heading home

Went to South Africa over Easter 2002 and went to Al and Renata’s wedding....

Most Recent Entry: Monday, April 15, 2002

New Home Town

Canada Water We arrive in London and stay for a week in the council flat Gretchen shares with three other South Africans. One of them, Andrew, went to high school with me. We meet a charming guy (sarcasm) who tells us he doesn’t want to marry his girl...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, April 21, 2001

On the way to London

I dislike Dubai intensely. It is a city of materialism and visible prejudice, which seems to float on a cloud of oil money. At the airport, Indians have a separate customs desk where they are disrespectfully treated. Our cab drivers were all Indian, an...

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, April 19, 2001

Second Honeymoon - Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur is thick with humidity; the sky is dark with smoke from fires in the Malaysian forests. You can feel the sky touching you as you walk through the city, which is remarkable for its casual air, large-scale architecture and mix of cultures an...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, June 03, 2000

A winter honeymoon backpacking in Europe is not a good idea

A first encounter with Paris leaves me self-conscious and insecure about my French abilities. A disappointing experience....

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