It’s a brave thing to pack your bags and set off for a totally new place— alone. We crave the familiar. We feel cosy in the arms of certainty. We are constantly going back to the places of memory. And in Africa, where travel for…
The Two Oceans Marathon is coming up in Cape Town at the end of this week. I have seen the excited posts from some of my running friends who are participating this year. It’s a big deal, this race; over 25,000 runners from all over…
One of the big challenges, when you use air travel across the African continent, is how expensive flights to places that are really close to you can be. This is because firstly there are often no direct flights linking many major African centres of commerce…
I had never been to Lake Naivasha before and was accompanying some children from Jitegemee Children’s Centre in Machakos, Kenya on a field trip. The students, about 50 of them, and their teachers were in a bus ahead of us. I was driving and accompanied…
Here’s a list of tips from experiences we’ve had out on the highways of Southern and Eastern Africa. This is based on things we found out the hard way or wish someone had told us before we set off on road trips into unknown territory.
Last week, I had an unusual Friday off with Nips. We decided to explore Nairobi, technically Karen suburb, and see what was possible in terms of child-friendly activities. We were pleasantly surprised!
Our 2018 East Africa Road Trip definitely centered around coffee!! We felt this was appropriate, East Africa being famed for its coffee production, and us being avid coffee consumers
Cape Town, one of Africa’s most famous cities, will run out of water on April 12th. The city council has set this as Day Zero, the day when the levels in the dams will be so low that the city will have to turn off…
Happy 2018! There’s nothing that helps you feel more like you “belong” in a place than hosting guests! We had such a fun couple of weeks over the holidays with a visit from my mum who came all the way from Cape Town to see…
In 2014, the first year Fungai and I were together, we did many, many, many road trips. In fact, I think we can in no small part attribute the strength of our relationship to the fact that we share a love of Africa and road…
Zain Verjee used to interview world presidents and other movers and shakers. She gave that up to help create a generation of informed and highly trained African journalists and multi-media storytellers.
We arrived in Machakos, Kenya in August 2016 with too many heavy suitcases, some excitement tempered by bucket loads of anxiety. Nips was not yet one year old, and we were more than a little nervous about relocating to a place where we knew nobody…
