Adventures

How to make a paper aeroplane… South Africa’s approximately 1.2 million hectares of timber plantations produce between 15 and 18 million tons of timber every year. There are eleven forestry…

Cross Country Insurance Consultants have always been about travel. Our motto “Take us with you” says it all. Whilst we are quintessentially Insurance Consultants, deep in our roots, in our…

MONA COTTAGE When taking groups to Pilgrim’s Rest, I have traditionally stayed at the evergreen Royal Hotel, as it is always simpler to have everyone together. On our recent jaunt…

Panning for gold in a stream… The air is cool, and the stream even colder. The world is quiet, the only sounds are the bubbling of the water and the…

Whilst we are accustomed to the concept of luxury camping known as “glamping” lesser known is the concept of hiking without an onerous load known as “slack-packing”. You hike with…

When people discuss “The Drakensberg”, most of us think about a very specific area in Natal. However, in truth, the Drakensberg escarpment stretches for more than 1000 kilometres, from the…

When one googles “when were humans first buried”, you generally come up with the information that the oldest known burials occurred some 130,000 years ago. Burying the dead is considered…

I have numerous friends involved in tourism, they are only starting to recover from the Covid -19 lockdown. Many did not. The impact hurt many sectors but personally, the tourism…

I recently left Johannesburg at about 0415 en route to the ADA training facility near Broederstroom to collect my friend Heine Engelbrecht. Heine was to be the navigator to a…

I am going to start this column with a confession… I am definitely no Domestic Goddess! We all love food, and whilst it is not unheard of for me to…

“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plough in the fields and the sweaty faces of…