Is it safe to say that many of us have role models of some kind in our lives? A person, or people, who have influenced our lives, whether consciously on their part (and ours) or not. People who’s lives have inspired us, helped guide us. We can […]
Author: Tamlin Wightman
The Love Nut. And Other Reasons To Visit The Seychelles.
Nature’s will to be weird, as Jim Morrison called it, couldn’t be stronger than on an island. Islands may prescribe to some conventions, what with their hammocks and palm trees, the mix of heat and rum urging on that island idleness. But it’s their weirdness that really gets you. […]
What Does Life in Paradise Actually Look Like?
Most people know about the weird upside down trees and long-limbed monkey people; the baobabs and the lemurs, the images that mark the postage stamps of this faraway Indian Ocean island. But if you research the destination of Madagascar for long enough you will uncover a […]
Where We Dine On The Cape’s Riviera
“When your eyes first fall upon the Mediterranean you know at once why it was here that man first stood erect and stretched out his arms toward the sun. It is a blue sea; or rather it is too blue for that hackneyed phrase which […]
The Armchair Safari | Destination: Morukuru
Since I was a lone girl child, my father and I have been talkers. We don’t talk to other people much, but we talk to each other. About other people. But also about big ideas. Philosophy. Politics. Plants. Every and anything. It has been a way of […]