Category: Travel

  • 8 August 2024
    This past weekend I was privileged, along with some wonderful folk, to celebrate our 50th School Reunion in Oudtshoorn. Oudtshoorn…
  • 31 July 2024
    Introduction by Gail: Good day my lovely friends! Brrrrr, it certainly has been very, very cold.  In fact it’s bone…
  • 22 May 2024
    In Irish when you talk about emotion, you don’t say, “I am sad.” You’d say, “Sadness is on me –…
  • 15 May 2024
    This is a guest post by Alison Majuqwana This winter in the UK my partner, Brian, and I decided that…
  • 24 April 2024
    (with apologies to Walt Whitman) In our family Sunday afternoon drives were always a treat..  After lunch we would pile into…
  • 20 March 2024
    Reading is a very exciting, sometimes scary or sad, or funny or loving or painful journey.  It is a wholesome escape…
  • 6 March 2024
    According to the Oxford Dictionary the term Knights of the Road  means “a man who frequents the roads, for example a travelling sales…
  • 28 February 2024
    I was fourteen going on fifteen years old when we moved to the Little Karoo – Oudtshoorn to be exact. …
  • 21 February 2024
    This is a story about my Irish grandparents who I never had the privilege of meeting. What I am about…
  • 14 February 2024
    Hallelujah! The Welcome Table I love reading recipe books and books about food! 'Hallelujah! The Welcome Table a lifetime of…