There is an abundance of outdoor experiences and wild-life in and around Johannesburg
Recharging and restoring – essential for any hands-on guesthouse owner Running a guesthouse is a great business. I meet interesting people; I have no traffic issues getting to work and back; and I’m mistress of own destiny. But the down side is that it is relentless. While the rest of the team work 5 days […]
Read More »Do all great projects have such humble beginnnings? I’m an artist, and Pablo is my dog. He’s the reason I started exploring The Wilds – I live nearby and he likes walking there. And so it came to pass that James Delaney became a champion of cleaning up the overgrown Wilds and restoring it to […]
Read More »Another addition to Liz at Lancaster’s art collection The Turbine Art Fair turned out to be more expensive than just a cup of coffee and meal at the outdoor cafe. I couldn’t resist a small scale work from Hannelie Coetzee’s enigmatic African Migratory Locust series. The work comprises the trace of a real locust – […]
Read More »From Joburg CBD, to the birth of humankind to Sandton glass status symbols – they saw it all Liz at Lancaster was delighted to host a wonderful couple from San Francisco in the States recently. It was their first time to South Africa, in fact to Africa and they were up for everything. Although they […]
Read More »RAINS TRANSFORM THE PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK Having not been to the Pilanesberg National Park for several years, I was lucky enough at the end of last year to visit twice in 3 months – in October – when it was still quite brown, dry and dusty and again in December when it was transformed into […]
Read More »What better to do on a Wednesday but escape to the outdoors for a morning’s hike? With a 180⁰ sweep across the open veld we could see wildebeest, zebra, impala and red hartebeest and as if that wasn’t enough, a black-backed jackal trotted across our path. Where was this – Kruger? Waterberg? Madikwe? .. no […]
Read More »The journey of the Braamfontein Spruit Source of the Braamfontein Spruit in what is now Barnato School I recently visited the Barnato High School in Berea to do some scoping for a possible heritage report and was fascinated to discover that the Braamfontien Spruit rises in the grounds of this school. Apparently when Barnato built […]
Read More »Kloofendal: close to the urban centre, yet part of the great outdoors If one of your goals in 2013 is to take more time off and get fit while also getting into nature, then we have lots right on our doorstep in Joburg. I was sent the Friends of Kloofendal newsletter and was amazed […]
Read More »For the next two weeks Mercury can be easily seen in our skies. Very early this evening, there’ll be a line up in the west of the 3 bright stars: Canopus (on the left), Sirius and Procyon; then the new crescent moon and to the right of that Mercury – very easy to see! Over […]
Read More »Weekend outings from Joburg Why not head out to Toadbury Hall in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. Toadbury Hall offers specially packed picnic baskets to enjoy outdoors under a shady tree or in the warm sunshine. The menu changes with the seasons and includes a range of handmade snacks, delicious mains and a […]
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