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Are you young – or old – enough (it’s all relative) to remember the song “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles? In 1980, it was a favourite at the school dances that were held every Friday night in the Boy Scout Hall in my home town. At the ti

Where did you hear about the hike? I was baited to run the Grand Raid ultra-marathon on the island years ago. Parts of that crazy 162 km race crisscrossed sections of the GR R1 trail. At the time, I felt that I’d missed a lot of the island’s sights

Why do certain snakes spit? The answer is simple: self-defence. The snake attempts to get its venom into the attacker’s eyes, causing pain and temporary blindness, giving the snake time to escape. The rinkhals is well known for its ability to spit.

As they jokingly say in Afrikaans, Marnitz is “mar niks”– tiny, in other words – but Henk and Anél Malan’s jolly farm stall (look for the yellow windmill) will help you out if your stomach is growling. Biltong and droëwors cost R240/kg; chilli bites

Where did you meet? Dietmar: I was born in Windhoek, Namibia, and grew up on a sheep farm near Mariental. Kerstin hails from a small village just south of Munich in Germany. Kerstin: After meeting in Namibia, we lived in Munich and then in London

Where did your interest in wildlife and conservation begin? I grew up in Italy, but we regularly visited family in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia. Each time, I carried back home the fascination for African wild places, nurturing a dream of o

Jack, Calum and Robbie Hudson are three brothers from the UK whose chosen method of escaping the rat race is to swim in remote and often dangerous places. They’re known as the Wild Swimming Brothers. Swim Wild, written by Jack, with contributions b

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the

Boerewors, bangers, porkies… Whatever you call them, or whatever they’re made of, everyone loves a good sausage! This incredibly versatile way of combining meat, spices and flavours can be found in cuisines around the world. And whether the sausage i

The Via Francigena is Italy’s version of the Camino de Santiago. The entire route is more than 2 000 km long, but this eight-day tour starts in Viterbo and follows the final 112 km – far enough to earn a Testimonium (certificate) from the Vatican in

A palm-studded coastline, warm water, coral reefs, mangrove forest and some interesting sand driving await you on this 10-day tour, which starts in the Kruger Park. We’ll travel east across the lush lowlands of Mozambique, crossing the Limpopo River,

Our journey started in mid-2018 when we left Marie’s home town of Valence in France. We arrived in Africa in May 2019. Now it was early October and suddenly a bit surreal to be contemplating our last two months of this epic overland trip. After our

My two brothers and I went to boarding school in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), a good 350km and a border crossing away. We only went home once every three months, along with a gaggle of cousins. Being away for so long, things were bound to change, an