South Africa is a country of great diversity: it has some of the most beautiful and dramatic scenery in the world, but it also has a large portions which never get into any guide book. I have driven through a large chunk of the latter today, making my way from…
Do you take some “light” reading with you when you travel abroad? I think this is one of the hardest decisions I have to make whenever I travel somewhere: which books do I want? Which ones will I actually use? Do I need to keep some weight allowance to bring…
I am sure that you can recognise a red hot poker when you see one but did you realise that there were around 70 species in the genus Kniphofia? The majority of these species grow in the eastern half of South Africa and next week I am off on an…
Farmer who is serving the public on Saturdays Stanford, 7th Nov (1945/6) On the footpath that runs from the Hartebees River on the Caledon side of the high Klein River Mountains range, over the mountain to Stanford, a distance of 12.5 miles, a record has been set that will be…
