Last week I wrote about our #JoziWalks tour of Orlando, Soweto on Saturday 19th with His and Hers Jams. The next day, Sunday I went off to Diepsloot to meet Lucky (aka Villah) Nkali of #BlackBikeProductions and his team #BikesMustRise for a cycling tour. We met at the Wot If Trust a women and youth […]
Read More »There are more places in Soweto than Vilakazi Street Which name is more famous when it comes to tourist and outsider awareness of Soweto: Vilakazi Street or Mooki Street? Have tourists even heard of James Mpanza? Do they know of Soweto’s early beginnings? Or are they simply aware of the ‘only street in the world […]
Read More »What is the connection between Ethiopianism in South Africa and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Ethiopia? If any of you have ever thought about the connection between the Ethiopian Church in South Africa and the main church in Ethiopia: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, you have a more inquiring mind than I do! (Nearly half […]
Read More »If you received our 2018 newsletter, please ignore this post! I send out what is meant to be a festive season greeting once a year …. But I am never in time! This year our newsletter (to our data base of over 6000 people), went out part way through January. And the most rewarding aspect […]
Read More »‘Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’ (with thanks to Lewis Carroll) So I will do just that. When I visited The Wilds a month or so ago, (recently upgraded and rejuvenated … read 2 Summer’s post) right next to the carpark was […]
Read More »The 2017/2018 New York Met Opera season has just started and with it of course are the worldwide live screenings of the operas. Opera fans battle to get information on the local screenings at Cinema Nouveau, Rosebank as Sterkinekor no longer has a dedicated section/page for the opera season on their website. There have been lots […]
Read More »With only 3 of us ‘on duty’ over a week-end at Liz at Lancaster, instead of the usual 4, I often miss the Parkrun in Delta Park on a Saturday morning. It starts at 8 which usually clashes with breakfasts and preparing of invoices for check-out. I’m always sad when I do, as it’s one of my favourite weekly activities. The field of some 1000 odd meet at the Delta Environmental Centre.
Read More »Newsletter from Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse 2014 Another year has flown by and again although it is already 2015, it’s hopefully not too late to wish you all the very best for the year ahead. As always we’d like to thank you for your ongoing loyal support over this last year: returning guests; first-time visitors; those […]
Read More »Here’s a nice blog [September 2014] on Liz at Lancaster from Johannesburg-guesthouses which I have quoted in full. I have updated [March 2017] the info on restaurants at the end of the block as it was outdated: Here’s the blog: I hear Liz answering the phone with a ‘Hello Liz speaking, Liz at Lancaster […]
Read More »10 reasons to stay at Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse 1.Fast speed internet – the first thing all guests ask for on arrival is the internet password. And recently, a guest was so chuffed with the speed here, he downloaded an App to check our speed. Now on a 50 meg fibre optic cable directly to the […]
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