Destination: South Africa

Photos: The Midlands area between Durban and Jo'Burg

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Photo Gallery

The Midlands

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Views [868]

Tuesday 8th February, 2011 Hawkston Farm, Midlands (between Durban and Jo’burg) We survived 3 dives at Sodwana - enjoying the warmer water, the hard coral and the leisurely atmosphere at the Sodwana Bay Lodge…in fact we stayed ... Read more >

Barry & Celia Coleman - dive masters extraordinaire!

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Views [1082]

At Umkomaas we were in the care of dive masters Barry and Celia Coleman of Meridian dive, who did an excellent job of organizing our accommodation, our dives and our social life! They are great people, in fact they could almost be mistaken for ... Read more >

let's tell time the african way

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 | By dianacchan | Views [585] | Comments [2]

so i'm missing my first day of work and i am horribly horribly bored.  perhaps its because my foot actually hurts even more now to the point that i cannot even stand and am completely confined to my flat, popping antibiotics and advil liqui-gels like ... Read more >

fun with horse races & townships

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 | By dianacchan | Views [442]

so the week was a blur of work and bars, bars and work and this past weekend was quite eventful. on saturday we got on our pretty lil' dresses n sunglasses and headed to the J&B horse races. it was touted as the most fashionable event of the year ... Read more >

Umkomaas, south of Durban

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Views [562]

Monday 31 st January 2010 Umkomaas, south of Durban After travelling from Pretoria last Friday through canefields, maize and ramshackle villages with kids on their way home from school walking by the roadside for endless ... Read more >

Photos: South Africa

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 | By kimbob26 | Photo Gallery

hungry mondays (and deep friend bread balls)

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 | By dianacchan | Views [658] | Comments [1]

first off i wanna blow off some steam about today, one of my nightmare mondays. starts off with all the trains being a pain in the ass, stalling out all over the place. so i am 5 min past 9 trapped mere meters from my stop and our receptionist rings ... Read more >

Photos: African Market Johannesburg

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Photo Gallery

Sunday at the African Village Market, Johannesburg

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Views [1441] | Comments [1]

While the newly cleaned out pool fills chez Mark & Margie’s, we took off to visit the colourful African Handcraft Markets – so much innovation and creativity.   Things we saw included fabulous dancers, a fire eating limbo dancer, solar powered toys, ... Read more >

Week 2 notification

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 | By colemanw | Views [313]

this is just a notification, I am holding back a full update til next week due to the repetitive nature of my first 4 weeks

Photos: Week 2

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 | By colemanw | Photo Gallery

Photos: Pretoria

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Photo Gallery

Johannesburg Zoo

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 | By melissa_wynn | Views [994]

A night in Joberg with some family friends before jetsetting off to America... Lovely people with a beautiful house just down the road from Joberg Zoo. i had time to kill this morning so I took a wander round the zoo. Everything is so cheap here! A ... Read more >

Into Africa

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Views [515]

Well here we finally are!  We're holed up, starting that downward spiral into retirement, about 20km from Pretoria - at our friends' Mark & Margie's hillside retreat.  A bit about their home...the house is made up of about 8 split-levels and is ... Read more >