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My portfolio of travel articles currently includes work for the Sunday Times, Food&Home, Time Out, Garden&Home, Travel Industry Review, Sawubona Magazine, Horizons, Get Lost (Australia) and more. I'm also a regular correspondent for 'Time to Travel' broadcast on national radio station SAfm.

Here is a selection of my latest work…

Beyond AfricaPeaks of perfection

The view from the Jungfraujoch observation deck is, quite simply, spectacular. Tucked in the saddle between two of Switzerland’s highest mountains, the highest railway station in Europe offers spectacular Alpine vistas of glaciers and snowy peaks. All of Switzerland lies to the north, as Italy...
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AdventureHome on the road

In hindsight, perhaps the Bainskloof Pass wasn’t the best place to learn how to drive a campervan. It’s a gorgeous stretch of road, justifiably regarded as master road-builder Andrew Geddes Bain’s finest piece of work, but Bain probably didn’t have 2.3-metre-wide campervans in mind when...
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Urban EscapesTunnel vision

I don’t like cockroaches. Rats, I can manage. Mice aren’t a problem. But don’t show me cockroaches unless I have a can of bug spray in each hand. So an hour spent scrambling through historic storm water tunnels – parts of them evidently holding a Periplaneta Americana convention – was...
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AdventureMarked by the desert

“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match." Legendary British explorer...
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AdventureEye on the whites

Out at the Muizenberg backline we call them the ‘men in grey suits’. Here in the waters of Cape Town’s False Bay, to mention the Great White Sharks by name would – for the superstitious – be inviting an unwelcome visit. So instead we play mum. As we wait for the next wave to roll in...
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AdventureChange is good

Like the waters that ebb and flow through Knysna’s famous lagoon, this ever-popular holiday town is all about change; elephants come and go, forests are cut down and renewed, holiday houses are repainted or rebuilt. Visit in a year’s time and you might not recognize the place. And perhaps...
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