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…
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.
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…
It was early evening in July and I was driving from Nyanga, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, back to my mother-in-law’s house in Fish Hoek. As I cruised down Baden Powell Drive, which runs along part of False Bay, with the ocean…
