We lived in Centurion, Pretoria for 4 years and welcomed numerous visitors every year to South Africa, including family, friends and work ...

Following a death this week in Johannesburg in a lion park  I was reminded of a visit to Krugersdorp in March 2012 when a man actually got o...

My teenage son is on his school holidays from the UK. I decided to spend as much time travelling South Africa as time would permit. We lef...

Well it’s been an amazing experience, something to look back on and say we’ve done, but I don’t think I’ll be doing it again in a hurry....

I once entered a travel agents in Swindon as they had flights to Luxor 'from £99'. I asked the travel agent to book me that flight, ...

Firstly I would like to thank my friend Laura who invited me to the #JoziMeetUp where I met Louisa , who then invited me for coffee in Joha...

I’m not a good flyer, it’s the take off and landing I’m not keen on. I need to sit by a window so I can keep my eye on the wing and the gro...

I wrote a blog post which was published on Monday about How safe is South Africa? Today we were victims of a crime and all the advic...

I'm off to the UK again, I've only been back 5 weeks by the time I fly back out and so much has happened in that time. The tenants ...

I don't do exploring very well, I like to know where I'm off and what I can expect to find. but this morning I got into th...

So a year ago today I blogged about Day 6 in South Africa http://www.chickenruby.com/2011/01/day-6.html Well here's what I've disc...

Missing and disappearing things It seems to be an accepted fact that things go missing in South Africa. I suppose really I should say stol...