The tourist industry booms in Johannesburg making travel easy and transport exciting
Jozi, the city we love to hate has woken up and embraced spring and the warmer weather with a frenetic splurge of events: art exhibitions and studio open days; film festivals; screenings of Met operas, international exhibitions and National [British] Theatre plays; heritage walks; sketching workshops; stunning ballets performed by the Joburg ballet company and […]
Read More »Genuine positive reviews are blocked by TripAdvisor Guests who stayed in July (our wonderful locum Nicole was standing in for me while I was away), sent this email about their stay. The review mentioned above was never published by Tripadvisor. This is another example of where genuine positive reviews are withheld by TripAdvisor with no […]
Read More »Diamonds and Dust: Johannesburg Heritage Tour At last … breaking free from 2 years of on-line tours of Jozi’s heritage. In early February I joined a live walking tour of Jewel City and Maboneng with Dave Gurney and Alkis Doukakis of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation. We met at the Hallmark Hotel with its impressive […]
Read More »While Parts I and II of Being a Tourist in my Own City spoke about the tours that are on regular offer, the tours here either only happen annually or are once offs. Hopefully the weekend of #JoziWalks will happen again this winter. #JoziWalks sponsored by the the JDA (the Johannesburg Development Agency) This is […]
Read More »Researching the migration of European Honey Buzzards Back in 2016 we had a guest stay from Novia University of Applied Sciences in Ekenäs, Finland. On his first morning at breakfast overlooking the birdfeeders in the garden, I saw his binoculars on his table and launched into an enthusiastic conversation (rather one-sided) about our local garden […]
Read More »Jeppe Street Post Office 1935 While writing my last post on Art Deco in Johannebsurg, I came across photos in my archive of the Jeppe Street Post Office. Three years ago Laurice Taitz of Johannebsurg In Your Pocket together with JDA and Africa Housing Company [AFCHO] arranged a tour of this 1935 Public Works building. […]
Read More »A prime birding location I wrote about Zaagkuilsdrift and KgomoKgomo in my last post but only posted one bird photograph! So more on the actual birding here. Just 50km north of Pretoria, this area is one of South Africa’s most prolific birding spots with grassland, woodland and water birds abounding. Illustrious company We knew we […]
Read More »Liz at Lancaster is a bird friendly establishment Liz at Lancaster is recognized by BirdLife South Africa as a birding friendly establishment and we have hosted several members of Birdlife SA and arranged tours for international birders. I’m a very amateurish birder, tending to glaze over when it comes to warblers, pippits, larks and cisticolas ((but […]
Read More »Self-contained units provide ideal social distancing Here are 10 reasons why Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse provides optimal accommodation for Level 3 and 2 stay overs Direct access from your car to your unit. No reception check-in, lifts or corridors. All rooms have separate entrances and enclosed private outdoor spaces Staff and management live on site […]
Read More »Nightsbridge includes Liz at Lancaster in their blog post A year after it first started in 2005, Liz at Lancaster signed up with Nightsbridge, an on-line booking management system. We have seen it grow from a small husband-and-wife business to a large company with a call-centre, consultants, and links to many booking sites. These booking […]
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