The blogs I usually write are travel and sports related but this was such a magical experience that I wanted to write about it. Romilly has learnt to ride a bike – and she’s 3! I can still vividly remember learning to ride a bike myself when I was five – we had a short wall along...
Four years on from the inaugural BURTSandBORTZ adventure following the Springboks around Japan, we were back on...
A few months ago now we headed off to Cyprus for a 10-day holiday. We had read the weather at the end of February should be good and found cheap mid-morning flights to Paphos on the west coast – great times with a 2 and a half year old toddler.
November is always a wonderful month of the year here in the UK with the Springboks visiting on their annual (formerly) end of season tour. Every November they play three or four Tests against a combination of the four home unions – England,
The South African 7s Rugby Team are more commonly known as the BlitzBokke. The team’s nickname is derived from “blitz”, an Afrikaans word meaning lightning, and of course Bokke – the nickname of our rugby team....
For those of us South Africans who live in the UK, November is a wonderfully special month of live rugby as we follow our Springboks around...
The Principality of Andorra, Europe’s sixth-smallest country, lies in the Eastern Pyrenees and is bordered by Spain and France.
Given Andorra doesn’t have its own airport, I flew into Barcelona and was picked up by...
En route through the Scottish Highlands in a campervan – here’s my blog on an amazing road-trip along the North Coast 500 in a campervan with a bump!
In early September, Catherine, the bump and I headed up to Scotland for a final holiday before the little one arrived. The weather in Scotland is seldom camping friendly, nor is a large 8-month bump really, so we decided to hire a campervan! It’s also a very Covid...
