Ocean Sole: making art from trash
When you come across an old flipflop washed up on a beach, what do you see? A grungy old shoe? A piece of rubbish?…
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The secret life of shells
Something wasn’t right about the sounds of the morning. There was something out of place: a sound I hadn’t noticed in the post-sunrise bliss…
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Remembering a time…
We spent our days in the precious stillness of the bush, where Dad was building the camps he’d designed. Every day was an adventure;…
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Music to make you homesick
We know there’s music that makes you desperate to travel; tunes that inspire wanderlust and have you recklessly searching for a flight somewhere….
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Home for the soul
There is a farm in South Africa’s Southern KwaZulu-Natal Midlands that has completely captivated my heart. I go there, near Ixopo, to escape the world;…
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A day in the life of Lamu
[words and photograph © Narina Exelby] In the early morning, before the sun’s first rays begin to flirt with palm-thatched roofs, Lamu wakes to…
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Seychelles: an island for artists
[words and photographs © Narina Exelby] I met Michael Adams one afternoon in the pouring rain. The kind of rain where, no matter how close to…
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Cape Town’s Culinary Culture
[Article first published in Aspire – Etihad Airlines business-class inflight] At first glance, South Africa doesn’t exactly leap to mind as one of the…
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Marrakech – Place of the Dead…?
Crossing the Djemaa – cutting past, child boxers, clowns, contortionists and mangy trained monkeys – your ears are assaulted by rolling waves of noise…
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Kenya: the greatest wildlife real-estate on Earth
[words & images © Mark Eveleigh] Kenya has been called ‘the greatest wildlife real-estate on Earth’ and for the sheer density of its wildlife,…
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