England’s Dartmoor National Park
Markie and I enjoyed a wonderful, and dry, long weekend walking along the Two Moors Way across Dartmoor National Park – here’s the blog I wrote on our weekend.
Markie and I enjoyed a wonderful, and dry, long weekend walking along the Two Moors Way across Dartmoor National Park – here’s the blog I wrote on our weekend.
We enjoyed a sunny long Easter weekend walking almost 80km of the beautiful Cotswold Way from Stroud to Bath.
The Proteas’ trials and tribulations at World Cups are well documented. In 27 years spanning seven World Cups before this one, barring our first in 1992 where the weather gods didn’t fancy the new kids on the international scene, we’ve somehow contrived to lose the plot. I...
Another major tournament, so much hype and expectation and ultimately bitter disappointment. The tournaments and grounds may change but the result continues to be the same – the Proteas simply fail to win when it matters.
Since we last won our first and only ICC event – the inaugural...
This was taken as we made our way up Cat Bells in England’s Lake District. We spent a wonderful few days walking in this beautiful part of the country and I really enjoyed writing my blog on our trip.
Over the late May bank holiday weekend, Catherine and I rented a car and headed north for some six hours to the Lake District, England’s largest national park. It’s a beautiful part of the country with the mountainous landscape being very different to anything I had...
This past weekend Catherine and I headed north some 100 miles from London to the Cotswolds, a gorgeous part of the country. We were celebrating our recent engagement and after our few days there, I was so happy with my choice of where to go!
Beautiful old stone-housed villages are a...
Growing up in South Africa in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, we had a weekly NFL hour highlights package on the sports channel ‘Supersport’. As a sports-mad kid, this was something new and I was hooked! Back then there was no Google so it took me close on a full season to...
The sight as one exits the tube
Although I’d been to Wembley before, the sight as I exited Wembley Park Tube still took my breath away for a moment with this huge...
Cricket is definitely one of my favourite sports and there aren’t many better ways to spend a day than watching a test match with a beer in hand in gorgeous sunshine. As fate would have it, Biff (our captain Graeme Smith) and the boys (or formally The Proteas) were touring England over...