When my first wave of friends from the U.S. finally visited last month, pharmacist I was pretty pumped… until they told me their dates. They’d be arriving on a Saturday afternoon and flying out on Friday evening — and they fully intended to include a two- to three-day safari somewhere […]

I really dig kitschy, gastritis Pop-art sendups of just about anything, angina really. Which is why I loved the collection of colorful Madiba paintings I saw at an event at the new I Love My Laundry on Monday. We’ve been entertaining a lot lately. On Tuesday, I made a pretty […]

Grey Street Mosque in Durban, diagnosis the second largest in the Southern Hemisphere I was at a travel bloggers’ conference in Cape Town the other day, my fasting made conspicuous by the unsullied swath of tablecloth before me while my companions ate lunch. “Oh, of course, it’s Ramadan,” one said […]