• Guests’ Corner: Possess The World

    13 February 2018 - By 

    As part of the next instalment in my international version of Guests’ Corner (previously a local South African travel interview section on Tamlyn Amber Wanderlust), I chatted to Catherine Steel, travel blogger at Possess The World. Catherine and Ian are an Australian couple who love food, wine and travel. After successfully raising her family and dedicating twenty years of her life to health care, Cath – together with Ian – is finally enjoying the Gap Year they missed out on a young adults. Together, Cath and Ian blog about their adventures on Possess The World as they go! Over the…

  • Guests’ Corner: Shoes of a Nomad, Melanie Kitzan

    5 December 2017 - By 

    As part of the next instalment in my international version of Guests’ Corner (previously a local South African travel interview section on Tamlyn Amber Wanderlust), I chatted to Melanie Kitzan, travel blogger at Shoes of a Nomad. Melanie Kitzan grew up in North Dakota, and during her lifetime, she has been a scientist, attorney, mother, writer and vagabond. She lives in the House of She, near Seattle, with her dogs and daughters. Follow her global travel adventures and stories on her lovely travel blog, Shoes of a Nomad. 1) Who or what inspired you to go into travel blogging? I had…

  • Expo Review: Titanic Artifact Exhibition, Cape Town – Part 2

    26 February 2016 - By 

    When you step into the upstairs level of the Watershed, where the second part of the Titanic Artifact Exhibition (running till March 13th) is housed, you instantly feel the change as the temperature drops, the spotlights seem to alter and even the music soundtrack makes a more dramatic shift as you are warned of an iceberg ahead. There you will learn about the brave and hard-working men, who worked in the bowels of the Titanic’s Boiler rooms, where 159 coal-fired furnaces and 29 boilers would consume 825 tons of coal per day, as engineers – known as the ‘Black Gang’…