Southern African Roadtrips

I made the most of the three weeks' holiday, going on a two-week, 4000km road trip up Southern Africa's East Coast with my girlfriend Tanith, followed by a mandatory hike (this time in the picturesque but at times misty surrounds of the Blyde River Can...

 

African Adventure 2007...!

" The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes " More to follow...

 

It DOES rain in Southern California

On this side of the earth (which is 10 time zones away from South African Time) things has been crazy! One very good analogy of the JIT experience came from Elbe a follow Jitter in Houston; and she sums it up as follows. “It’s as if you live in a reali...

 

My lifes journey's so far

Back to Paris... How lucky am I!!! This time with a friend and a bit more time...

 

Local stuff - 2006

Photos courtesy of Melissa Fangueiro......

 

Jangamo Beach, Inhambane, Mozambique – 2006

Just got back from Mozambique (with Laura, Ian, Matt and Anders (Australian and Danish respectively, but living in Bangkok) and had a really awesome time! Getting there was an experience, though… we decided to fly because we had such limited time, and ...

 

End of Zim

I know I’m lucky. I’m lucky to taste life all around and also lucky to leave it behind and keep going right. I dove in, got my hands dirty even. I could empathize with problems but it seems so trite when I am able to board a plane and leave them all ...

 

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...

 

Mozambique, May '06

Our trip definitely gave me much to think about and consider. I plan on returning to Africa again in the future. It felt like home. As I get pictures from teammates and if I do any more writing, I'll post it on here and will specifically note in...

 

Dec 06 - Jan 07 Christmas and Cape Town!

Wow, I certainly remember why I love Cape Town! Flew down for Sue and Andrew's wedding, which was really unbelievable - can't believe they finally did it! It was also so much fun to see all the London kids again, as well as the CT ones!! I also had a c...

 

Elective 2006

This week i moved from maternity to TB ward. It didnt start well - i kept feeling faint from the heat and the smell of serioulsy ill people. There was one woman who was no more that a skeleton with skin draped over her - she couldnt even lift her head ...

 

To the Motherland

Um...does anyone speak Xhosa? We could not get the students to speak to us. Either they were shy about their English or they didn't know it. So maybe we need to focus on higher grade levels, where older students may have had more experience speaking in...

 

London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

 

My world

Starting 12 May 2006 / Underwater pics of Tioman...

 

Croatia and Belgium... Pizza, Ice-cream, Mussels, Beer and Chocolate

I spent a week in Croatia on a boat with 22 friends (we had the luxury of occupying the whole boat!) and sailed the Dalmatian coast from Split down to Dubrovnik and back, stopping at a different island/coastal town every night. It is such a beautiful p...

 

africa 2005

We arrived in Johannesburg airport late afternoon. Unfortunately being rather dumb we had been standing at the wrong luggage carousel (duh!) and by the time we finally found out baggage our lift to the hostel had left! Panic!!! We ended up employing...

 

Argentina 2004/05

New year's day was dead, and we were off on a 17 hour bus trip to the north of Patagonia to a town called Bariloche, which lies in the heart of the Argentine lake district. To the veteran travellers of Europe in our group (Tanith and Rich), Bariloche w...

 

World Travels 2007

Arrived into Melbourne today by train. After the tram journey to St Kilda, we tried to locate the backpackers. Walking around and getting more and more pissed off for not knowing where we are, we finally found the place and booked in. Entering our r...

 

Argentina and Chile 2005/06

Oh what a holiday...again! (summary at the bottom for the time constrained, but once again you'll miss out on my budding literary genius!) I love Argentina, one of the best kept secrets in budget travel. Hordes of South Africans flock to the east b...

 

USA 2006

We set out at 8PM for Washington DC from New York. Once again it was inevitable that we were going to get lost on the way. After eventually arriving after midnight, the lit up Washington Monument stood as a landmark, a reminder that we were in the Ca...

 

Africa

Cities and places in Africa... Yes I am trying to get my interactive map as full of red dots as possible, I just love seeing dots everywhere on the world map that I have been to... cheesy yeah I know, but who cares! he he he...

 

South Afrika

WAS A M A Z I N G !!! look at the pics ...

 

South America I: Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil, Bolivia, Peru 2006

Copacaban in Bolivia, from where we visited Isla del Sol, and Puno in Peru, from where we visited the Uros Floating islands, Isla Amantani and Isla Taquile. Thur 29 June 2006 We took a bus from Puno to Cusco last night and after 7.5 hours arrived ...

 

UK - April 2006

Wow, quite a whirlwind trip to the UK, but such fun to be back after so long! I can’t quite believe I haven’t been to London since I left three years ago! I landed at Heathrow at the crack of dawn on Saturday morning, having had a surprisingly good nig...

 

Southern Africa 2002/3

Had relaxing weekend in hills of Nyanga with other girls on Mutare team....

 

UJ Choir Tour - Europe Winter 2006

Linz / St. Florian. We were guests of the South African Club in Linz. WOW what a great bunch of people. We were treated like royalty. We were met by representatives of the club at our hotel after which we took the short drive to the monastery of St....

 

South Africa 2005

Went to Mkuzi then GSLWP for 4 weeks...

 

South Africa & Zimbabwe

This is just a photo thing for me...

 

All over Japan

I had a 24 hour stopover on the way to Japan. The weather was miserable but made the most of it and enjoyed my first taste of Asia! Quite humid, lots of skyscrapers!...

 

Malawi, Zambia, Namibia 2005

Two months in the summer of 05. I started in Jo'burg- jeez that place is a prison and got a 30 hour bus ride to Malawi. Going through Zim as a white guy was fine but the customs guys had a bit of a laugh at me. First stop in Malawi was Blantyre where ...