This area of the site does exactly what it says on the tin. Here you will find all my blog posts related to life in South Africa. Many will include a smidgen of autobiographical content which makes everything that little bit more personal, whilst many more are injected with my own, ‘unique’ (as my friends would term it) sense of humour, which you may or may not come to grasp. I apologise in advance and hope that either way the content makes for an enjoyable read.
As unwavering as the annual mass migration of wildebeest between the Serengeti and Maasai Mara, South Africa’s middle classes flock to the coast during the December holidays to soak up the summer sunshine. Available beach sand is packed with umbrellas and multi-coloured towels on which lie bodies varying from shades of pale, through to a lobster pink/red and those like myself, who could be mistaken for ‘Capies’ when sporting a year-round summer tan. ‘Burn baby burn’, the philosophy adopted by many who lather themselves in what can only be described as SPF ‘cooking fat’ in order to squeeze out a tan in the shortest time possible. Dealing with the ‘peel and flake’ is tomorrow’s problem. I’ve taken to applying a factor 50 sunscreen due largely to my age and fear of excessively contrasting with my wife in couplely photos. Continue reading
