#South Africa

I’ve fallen behind on my Port Elizabeth posts – I have too much to blog about and not enough time. But this post can’t wait any longer.

This week, while poking around the Illovo/Melrose area for my SandtonPlaces research, I wandered into James and Ethel Gray Park: a city park just off the M1 highway in the small suburb of Birdhaven.

Yesterday I went to the roof of the Sandton City Office Tower to take photos for the SandtonPlaces book. Those of you familiar with Joburg know the building I’m talking about – the office block in the middle of Sandton City mall with the pyramid-shaped cap on top.

I did a lot of really fun things on my whirlwind tour of the Port Elizabeth area last weekend: game drives, horseback riding, amazing meals, etc. I loved all of it, but there is no question what the highlight was.

I just spent four days in Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela Bay, with four other bloggers. It rocked.

The first photo I shot in Port Elizabeth on Thursday morning. Left to right: Rachel of Bush-bound Girl, Meruschka of Mzansi Girl, Heather of 2Summers, and Dianne of Afribird. Theresa of Fine Places is missing from the photo – she arrived a few minutes later.

If you are in Joburg and haven’t been living in a cave for the last month, then you’ve probably already heard about Happy.me – the new bubble tea joint in Greenside. Just about every lifestyle blog and online magazine in town has published something about it. Read some examples here, here, and here.