OK, who stole the Soweto that we know from the TV and put that modern place with bright new shopping malls and tarred roads and shiny cars and Holiday Inns in its place? Nice fire truck An extremely modern shopping mall lurked there, and pounced when I least expected it, creating this urge to shop [...]
The buzz is everywhere, it’s thick on the air, you taste it in the beer, feel it in the breeze, hear it in the thunder that seems to come every afternoon, huge build-up to an electrical climax every evening, you taste it in the undertones of every conversation: football. Or soccer, as they call it [...]
…on sleep, on blogging, and on football. LOL did I say football? Yes. I thought Holland was football-crazy…well I’d never been to Johannesburg before. First things first: I decided to drastically reduce the size of my photos. Last night it took me almost an hour to upload my previous post with the amsterdam pics. Had [...]