by Richard | Apr 12, 2010 | Interviews, Thinking, Travel
I love the questions that readers of this blog occasionally ask about travel, life and the big choices we make as we negotiate our paths through it. Not because I have any answers in the maths-exam sense of the word, but because it’s an opportunity to stop, look...
by Richard | Mar 30, 2010 | Africa, Interviews, Journalism, South Africa, Travel
The wind tumbles uncoordinatedly down the side roads. It’s the fastest thing in the quiet streets – not quite refreshing, but blowing hard enough to lift the heat from my skin, to make me believe that it’s not really as hot as it is. Dust crunches...
by Richard | Jan 26, 2010 | Cape to Cairo, Interviews
A few weeks on and returned and adjusting to life in the small microtropolis of Grahamstown. Of which there is so much to write, so many places I want to go and play with my camera, and so many big discussions to be had in the Rat & Parrot tavern. Those...
by Richard | Nov 10, 2009 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Interviews, Travel
One of the questions most frequently asked in the last few days has been whether I will be traveling alone on this trip, or whether I will be joined in the end with any intrepid traveling folk. For a time, Audrey was going to be exploring with me, but life, love and...
by Richard | Oct 18, 2009 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Interviews, Travel
This time it’s a super treat. On-theme, but not about either me, packing or visas for a change. Sihle Khumalo, who was kind enough to phone me the other week, was even kind enough to do a mini-interview on questions Cape to Cairo related. For those who...
by Richard | Aug 28, 2009 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Interviews, Travel
As part of compiling ever more detail of the intricacies of the pending odyssey from Cape Town to Cairo, what follows is a short interview with Audrey Mash, who I will be meeting up with in Lusaka, Zambia on 1 December. We will be travelling onwards from that point up...
