Category Archives: Travel

Architectural delights in Mozambique

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Reviva

Although we’d read about it and filed it in the back of our minds, we were both surprised and enchanted by the buildings we saw in Mozambique. From the minute you crossed the border, you felt that this was another … Continue reading →

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Splat! We’re back!

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Reviva

After two and a half months, we have returned from a 15 thousand kilometre trek through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland. I have lots of ideas and pictures to post which will appear over the next few weeks. This … Continue reading →

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Up and Away

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Reviva

Overtaken by the new girl on the block, Penelope Cruiser, The Red Skedonk ( see the article under BOOKBIRD profile under reviews for more information on the red skedonk, once a trusted family retainer) looks positively peeved. What drama is … Continue reading →

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Cupping a town in your hand

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Reviva

  The camera obscura in Grahamstown, a jewel, my not-so-secret passion.

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The Sea Bean

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Reviva

When my son, Ben, picked up this sea bean on the beach at Arniston which is at the very tip of Africa, I knew as I stroked its intriguing smooth exterior, a perfect fit for the the palm of a … Continue reading →

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I saw a ship a-sailing…

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Reviva

I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing on the sea, and oh, but it was laden, with pretty things for thee… except this ship is not on water but on rock, rock washed in drifts of grey, ochre and  green, flecked … Continue reading →

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Jellyfish

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Reviva

Check these mandalas washed up on the beach at Arniston. Alive? Dead? How strange and beautiful they are.                        

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Fantasies of living in a church in Klaarstroom

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Reviva

                                        We came across a FOR SALE sign on this bleak, isolated building in the middle of nowhere (which, like most places that are nowhere, is, of course, somewhere -in the small dorpie of Klaarstroom in the Klein Karoo, in … Continue reading →

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