Freewheeling in Malawi: a bike, my daughter and me
Bicycles, backpacks, a back-up van and a 14-year-old. What to do when you’re the mom and you’ve never ridden a bicycle except into a bush? You bite the bullet. Knowing that for kids, an adventure in an unfamiliar place is an education. It gives a vision of different traditions, cultures and lifestyle. It also teaches obvious lessons in history and geography. Not to mention resilience. Yours as well and theirs.
Retreating to flavour and mindfulness
The Buddhist Retreat Center a couple of hours by car from Durban in rural South Africa is a haven of tranquility and beauty where mindfulness and kitchen magic connect in a vast, poverty-stricken, harshly beautiful landscape.
Loretta’s Coffee ‘Xpressos’ Victoria Falls
Aromatic Zimbabwean coffee, elephants, buffalo, hippos, warthogs and the legendary Victoria Falls flavour Loretta Gomwe’s coffee success story. Imagine. You park your vehicle along the […]
Mbano Manor at Victoria Falls awes in Africa
Welcome to Victoria Falls. Mosi-Oa-Tunya — the smoke that thunders — as it was called (still is by some locals) before Scottish missionary and explorer […]
Out of Ethiopia, onto your plate
Eating, at it’s best, is a sensory experience. When we’re eating right, we’re seeing the food, smelling it, tasting it, touching it, feeling it in […]
Our Insider’s Guide: South Africa’s Durban
Durban, South Africa’s subtropical Indian Ocean port and resort city, is eccentric. Unexpected and curious. And weirdly wondrous. It’s a city that can thwack the […]
Nigeria’s culinary culture and Tola Akerele
“I really am proud of my heritage,” says Tola Akerele. “Food is one way people can get to know and understand a country, its culture, […]