November is the best month of the year in Joburg. It’s summer and it’s right before Christmas, so the city is buzzing and tons of cool things are happening before everyone clears out in December. After weeks of exhausting travel, I’m back just in time.
The Melville Cat: I'm Back
From the Melville Cat:
In my previous post I told you that I was missing. Today, I came back.
I didn’t come back on my own. Heather brought me back.
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Pop-Up Burgers, Revisited
In August 2013 I stumbled upon a tiny pop-up burger joint on an unlikely street corner in downtown Johannesburg. The burger joint, BGR, was selling tasty burgers for the unlikely price of R10 (less than $1) or R27 for a burger/fries/drink combo. I wrote a blog post about it (read that post here).
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The Melville Cat: I'm Missing
From the Melville Cat:
Well, this is awkward. It seems that I am missing.
I, of course, know exactly where I am. But Heather and Ray do not. I realize this doesn’t make much sense. But there you have it.
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I Climbed Some Mountains on Reunion Island
Maybe this is an overstatement. Theoretically I was hiking, not mountain-climbing. But the pictures speak for themselves.
When I first received the invitation to participate in the #GoToReunion campaign, I wasn’t sure I could go. I had just booked my trip to the U.S. (where I am now), and it overlapped with the Reunion trip by several days.
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Reflections of a Jet-lagged Woman Between Continents
Over the past month I have been to the following places:
- Graaff-Reinet, and about seven other small towns around South Africa,
- Reunion Island,
- Istanbul (only for eight hours – will explain in a future post),
- Washington D.C. (I’m here now.)
Johannesburg is the one place where I haven’t been very much during the past month. As I’ve said many times before, I love traveling but I also hate being away from Joburg, especially for extended periods.