Category Archives: Travel

Billboard

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Reviva

Returning from this mammoth two and a half month trip to Namibia and Botswana and the furthest reaches of South Africa, what do I have to offer you in my first attempt to report back? This, an advertisement for nothing … Continue reading →

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Grand Announcement

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Reviva

The six books in the CHILDREN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA series are to be published by Shuter and Shooter early in 2014. They are: Myrtle and Daneco, their life in Kassiesbaai, South Africa Thobeka and Samukelo, their life in Yeoville, South … Continue reading →

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Grassy Tails

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Reviva

I’m not sure of the identification of this grass, photographed in Lesotho but a new book we’ve acquired on the grasses of Southern Africa provides me with such a poetic range, I’m enchanted with possibilities. Could it be Boat Grass … Continue reading →

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Lesotho book complete

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Reviva

After a fascinating trip to Lesotho and a couple of months wresting the design and text from the thousands of photos we took, here it is        The 6th book in the CHILDREN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA series. In it are: … Continue reading →

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E–books the way to go!

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Reviva

  It’s terribly exciting but here it is – the culmination of over a year’s work! What you are looking at is a DVD. On it are three complete books  which started with an idea. The idea was to use … Continue reading →

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Tibet

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Reviva

Years of day dreaming have taken me to many places. It was an escape route from school with its impenetrable and interminable maths classes and pointless drill, from endless hours on the weekend – almost worse than the long school … Continue reading →

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Comparisons

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Reviva

It’s one of the most stimulating aspects to embarking on travel to unknown or less well-known parts: a perspective on one’s own life.  It takes seeing things with your own eyes -images in the media somehow don’t register nearly to … Continue reading →

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Ruined Hotels, Mozambique

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Reviva

Surprises abound in Mozambique. What we did not expect is to find abandoned ruins of once splendiferous, lavish hotels on remote islands and mainland coastal towns. Two islands of the Bazaruto archipelago, Santa Carolina and Margaruque, sport atmospheric rotting hulks … Continue reading →

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A new view

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Reviva

The equipment is minimal: a tube and a pair of plastic goggles, there is, luckily, no skill to it at all, yet the pleasure I discovered snorkelling the warm reefs of Mozambique and Northern Zululand, has me hooked. I am … Continue reading →

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Anybody for a ruin on Ibo?

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Reviva

Getting to the island of Ibo on the Quirimba archipelago is no mean feat. It’s either a dollar-hefty flight from Pemba for the well-healed or a long sortie by vehicle on dodgy roads to a launch-off spot on the mainland, … Continue reading →

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