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Merry Christmas
It is that time of the year when I just have no time to blog but looking back at this past year, I am so grateful for all the wonderful memories. Hopefully, when the New Year starts I will be back on...
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The Lighthouse at Shelley Point
Part of our summer holidays was spent on the West Coast. It delivers the type of holiday where days are filled with walks on long stretches of beach, watching whales, dolphins and seals from the patio...
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Oep ve Koep in Paternoster
During the course of our West Coast holiday, we ventured to Paternoster late one morning to have lunch at Die Winkel op Paternoster, better known as Oep ve Koep. We’d read all about Chef Kobus van der...
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A boy or a girl? We'll have to wait and see....
An old saying I’ve heard somewhere on my travels reads like this: “If you have a few true friends, a family who loves you, a roof over your head and the prospect of a meal this evening, then you are a...
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When Two Becomes Three
My sister and her husband became the parents to Rian Erasmus Fourie on Monday the 10th of March 2014. These photos are from a four-day visit I had the privilege of making to the brand new family during...
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Daleah's in Braamfontein
It’s been ages since we’ve been to Braamfontein and this past weekend we decided to go for a brunch in the area. We ended up in front of the bright green building in De Beer street that houses...
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The Lion Park
This is a long overdue post and I only remembered to write it because my computer complained about space on my hard drive. So, going through the photo folders I was reminded of an outing that I wanted...
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Kamers 2014 Easter in Johannesburg
I received an invite to attend Kamers Vol Geskenke earlier today. Kamers is a pop-up retail market that showcases local creativity and talent with high-end craft goods, the finest deli-products and...
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Deep inside the Karkloof forest
A few weeks ago we left the city for a couple of days to spend some time in the Kwazulu-Natal Midlands. We rented a remote house deep inside the Karkloof Nature Reserve, the second largest indigenous...
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When in Durban ..... Freedom Cafe
After spending some quiet quality time together as a family in the Karkloof forest, it was time to liven things up a bit. We opted for Durban and added a couple of days of Durbs-by-the sea to our...
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When in Durban ..... the Factory Cafe
Another quirky coffee experience while in Durban started with us following the GPS into an industrial section of town. We stopped the car outside an old 1930’s factory building and walked the stairs up...
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Hello Istanbul
It seems I’ve lost my blogging mojo!! It’s been five weeks since my previous post. But what better way to get back on the wagon than sharing the photos from our trip a week or two ago to Turkey. My...
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When in Istanbul ..... Beyoğlu
I don’t really know what I expected Istanbul to look like. Middle Eastern, I guess, knowing that it is a predominantly Muslim country. What we found was, in many respects, a delightful surprise. We...
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When in Istanbul .....Aya Sofya
After spending our first day in the more modern part of Istanbul, it was time to follow the tourists to Sultanahmet, the historic neighbourhood on the other side of the Golden Horn River. It was home...
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When in Istanbul ..... mosques
The beautiful skyline of Istanbul is punctuated by the endless minarets of the more than 3000 mosques in the city. The muezzin of every mosque used to climb the minaret so that their voices could be...
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When in Instanbul ..... sail the Bosphorus
Istanbul is vast, and it would take you a couple of weeks to take it all in properly. Part of the ‘problem’ is the fact that it straddles two continents, with the Bosphorus channel in between. At its...
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When in Istanbul ..... Topkapi Palace
I’d never heard of the Topkapi Palace before. It was only when I starting researching Istanbul that I learned about this residence of the Ottoman Sultans. The first stage of this expansive palace was...
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When in Istanbul ..... the bazaars
No trip to Istanbul would be complete without a visit to the colourful labyrinth of shops and alleys of the world famous Grand Bazaar and the Egyptian (Spice) Bazaar. What you heard is true - this is...
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Le Tour
This is not often a very ‘here are some pictures of my family’ blog, but today I am happy to make the exception. Recently, on a family trip to my parents’ home, we took the opportunity to surprise...
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Cappadocia
I’ve been meaning to write this blog about the second part of our trip to Turkey for a while now, but it is such a daunting task to try and capture all that we saw and experienced in this one place on...
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