A South African tale

I had such a lovely time the other week up in Northern KZN where farms are slowly being converted into luxury game reserves, servicing the wildlife desires of foreign tourists. Thanks to our country's lockdown and closed borders, these elite institutions have been offering packages that finally make their accommodations affordable to the average South …

Exploring Durban

I have lived in Durban most of my life - all of my childhood - and I have come to realise that it is an extremely underrated city. We are the sorry siblings to the European vibes of Cape Town and the city life in Jo'burg. We get the tourists and visitors that have done …

Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve

I have been sitting at home for too many days and I know I start to get too much into my own head when I do that, so the other day a friend and I decided to make use of my Rhino Card and visit one of the nature reserves. I almost feel like I …

Covid times

This has been a strange time in my life, I guess it's also been a strange time for everyone. I lost my job at the start of the year, had to move countries and moved back in with my parents. In this time I've kept sane by keeping busy, endless free courses on Coursera, studying …

Train, train, flight, oops!

After we managed to do the Moon Bears multipitch, the weather took a turn for the worse. Most days became drizzly and wet and we didn't manage to get a lot of climbing in. We did a few short climbs when we could but this climbing holiday was pretty much at an end. Our next …

Moonbears Multipitch Madness

Our time in the Dolomites is almost over and as a culmination of our time here, we're going to attempt our biggest climb to date. It's 250m high and 9 pitches long. The rating was a 5c (5.10a) which we can climb pretty comfortably. The first few pitches were pretty easy and we I felt …

Regina del Lago multipitches

The last couple of days AJ and I have headed out towards Lake Garda to climb and we've found this wonderful spot with a lot of routes that are easy for us as well as a good many challenging ones. It's become our favourite spot because its not very busy, the rock is really good …

Rock on!! It’s climbing time!

We've arrived in the Dolomites and have upgraded from tent life to an airbnb for the next 2 weeks while we explore the Dolomites and get some esrious climbing time in. There is just so much here to climb and we're absolutely spoiled for choice. Yesterday we went out and bought a climbing guide book, …

Waterfalls and San Marino

After a great night's sleep just outside of Rome, we started our journey to San Marino. In the wrong direction. This time it was on purpose. AJ had researched that nearby was the largest made man waterfall in the world, built by the Romans, during their heyday. We both thought that was worth a little …

When in Rome!

Today we're off to Roma! And all roads lead to Rome. They really do. We found that out as we drove towards the great Rome and took many wrong turns while not paying proper attention to the GPS. (Or Google being a bit ambiguous about which lane to be in) But true to form Google …