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A Chess Garden is Born

I wrote about Lucky and his Hlulabantu Chess Club and posted it on my blog, and…

Light and Dark in the Namib Desert What hit me this year with not a cloud…

Last night I attended a talk by Ian McCallum at the Yellowwood Café in Howick. He…

It is a long time since I wrote for the chronicle. At the house in Costa…

Although the Masai Mara is all about cats, the real reason we were there was to…

Cats are my favourite animals. Their behaviour is similar across the spectrum, from domestic cats to…

Sirente is a long mountain that rises from the village of Rovere on the Altipiano of…

The second time I was in the Timbavati I was very lucky. The Timbavati River was…

In the old days under the Apartheid government South Africa had few state friends. Indeed, the…

I remember one trail with German, Swiss and Austrian exchange students: they were all young adults…