Book Review: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
4/5 My advice to you: don't read this book before you go to bed and please, PLEASE, make sure that when you are coming to the end you...
Ted's Tours: Crashing and Splashing
I'm back! I am sorry that it has taken me so long to write about the next part of the trip. I got writer's block when it came to...
Book Review: A Rumour of Spring
5/5 The book is a fantastic introduction to the traumatic legacy left by apartheid in the rainbow nation as well as where the current...
Ted's Tours: Living(stone) it up!
Friday was the day that I was looking forward to the most. Leaving Hwange, we joined a road north heading for Victoria Falls. According...
Ted's Tours: No Cheetah-ing
Our story left off (as I am sure you, avid reader, remember) when we were saying goodbye to the beautiful and strange Matopos park. We...
Book Review: Outliers
4/5 I picked this book up accidentally in Ted's house and I did not put it down until I finished it. In the past, I have not been a...
Ted's Tours: Border Crossings
Day two brought with it the dreaded border crossing. We had ear marked this day as our most difficult as we were crossing over to...
Ted's Tours: An Unexpected Journey*
I am going to split up my safari story into multiple parts, but I am hoping – unlike The Hobbit films – that this journey warrants more...
Transkei Popsicles
When I was a freshman/first year at Dartmouth, I had the good luck of a) being surrounded from day one by extraordinary people who have...
Scaling Mountains (sort of)
Molweni! This week has been a bit of a whirlwind as I travelled through the Transkei with my brother James, Mark, Kate, and Kate's friend...
