There’s no doubt about it; solo female travel is on the rise. Global travel brand, Virtuoso, reports that women now make up 71% of solo travellers. In the US, Google searches for ‘solo female travel’ went up 131% last year alone (compared to 2023), and even the briefest look at social media reveals a wealth […]
So-called ‘van life’ has seemingly taken over. For one family of five, every breakdown and bump in the road was worth it
Trailblazing in the outdoors
Trailblazing the Apartment
Leave wherever you go looking better than when you arrived, and support local business
It’s got a lot to do with your mental attitude; you can discover new things in your own neighbourhood
South African drivers like to make up their own rules
After an encounter on the plane Milisuthando Bongela concludes that: “When given the choice to be right or to be kind, always choose to be kind.”
Zukiswa Wanner reveals the lengths we go through in an excerpt from, "Hardly Working: A travel memoir of sorts"
A traveller returns home to warm familiarities seen through the eyes of universality
I didn’t grow up with Christmas trees and wrapped presents on the 25th, so the pressure of always bearing expensive gifts isn’t quite there.
Money woes are a constant but for me, it’s the gaps in memory that cost more
The great end-of-year homecoming is not as simple as ‘I’m back, folks!’
A trip around Spain, taking in Barcelona, Madrid and Granada, and ending in Lisbon, Portugal, is packed with gastronomic delights and adventure
"The power we attribute to the people in whose name apartheid was made is perhaps too generous at times and too limited to the power to have things".
When I have conversations with women, they ask about my religion and my reasons for wearing hijab.
Mining threatens the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, a unique wilderness where the fundamentals of life confront you. Go see this KZN Eden.
When things go wrong abroad, having insurance can help avert a costly nightmare.
I knew the inordinate number of Piglet and Pooh Bear bags clutched by rug rats at the Frankfurt International Airport was a bad omen.
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/ 7 December 2008
Amsterdam’s reputation as a seething, hot-boxed bordello does the city a disservice.
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/ 6 December 2008
Niren Tolsi made an omelette of his brain before Amsterdam’s magic mushroom ban took effect this week.
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/ 28 November 2008
Far from the package resorts of the Red Sea and Luxor, a spectacular eco lodge at Siwa provides a haven of style and romance in the Sahara.
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/ 7 November 2008
The Unité d’Habitation in Marseille is one of the iconic buildings of the 20th century. Now you can stay there for a night, writes Lauren Cochrane.
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/ 30 September 2008
Nude hippies, big blobs, stunning dog pounds — is the 2008 architecture biennale too wacky for its own good? Jonathan Glancey reports.
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/ 27 September 2008
Panama City used to be somewhere people travelled through, not to, Vicky Baker reports.
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/ 12 September 2008
Britain is plunged into travel turmoil as its third-largest tour operator goes bust while the Channel Tunnel remains closed due to a fire.
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/ 2 September 2008
A recent survey shows that, despite the present economic conditions, more South Africans plan to travel abroad.
There is apparently a manual for student travellers that tells you how to get around the world with almost no money.