Craighall Park has it all I’ve blogged often about Craighall Park and its surrounds and what a great area it is to live. Craighall Park is a wonderful mix of rural country, suburban tranquility and urban convenience. How many Joburg suburbs have a nursery, horseriding, vegetable gardens and a spruit (or stream) running right through the […]
Delta Centre Recently guests staying here at Liz at Lancaster discovered the Pilates studio down at the Delta/REEA centre -5 blocks from the guesthouse. I love it when guests do my research for me! And it made me realize yet again, what a little gem this area is and how lucky we are to have […]
The Field and Study Centre, Parkmore Many decades ago I would join friends with a bottle of wine, some bread and cheese, and a blanket for a chilled Sunday late-afternoon/early-evening picnic on the banks of the spruit at the Field and Study Centre in Parkmore. I hadn’t been back since then, so was delighted when […]
From grazing land to sewage works to recreational space: Delta Park Delta Park, 104 hectares of open park land, is just 5 blocks from Liz at Lancaster. The area now known as Delta Park was part of the farm Klipfontein in the 19th Century. In 1902 it became a grazing area for cows as part […]