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People often ask me for advice about where to go on holiday in or around the Kruger National Park. I'm always unsure how to answer because the options are endless. But I usually present the options in two different categories: 1) DIY your experience -- self-drive through the park and stay in the modest SANParks [...]

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I've been meaning to blog about car guards (the South African term for parking attendants) since the first week I moved to Joburg. This line of work is an iconic South African phenomenon. In almost every busy street and parking lot in South Africa, you'll find people in Day-Glo vests directing cars in and out [...]

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Last week my friend Chris and I went on a Soweto art tour with Toura Travel Therapy, a.k.a. Jozi art guide Thabo the Tourist. I've had countless wonderful cultural experiences in Soweto over the years (see here and here and here), but up until now I had never done a Soweto tour focused specifically on [...]

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I recently committed (via Instagram Stories) to publish a blog post about choosing paint colors and tiles during our home renovation. I've since realized, now that I'm sitting down to write, that most of our painting and tiling choices were made more or less on a whim. How did we decide to paint the [...]

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I spent last weekend doing fun things in downtown Joburg. This is fairly normal for me (although last weekend was particularly jam-packed); I live ten minutes from the inner city and I'm usually there at least once a week. But I was reminded over the course of the weekend that there are still lots of [...]

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