• Bloggers: Where We Want to Travel One Day After the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Lately, with the threat and spread of COVID-19, many of us have seen our ‘everyday world’ become infinitely smaller… Our days are coloured by the sunrises and sunsets we watch from our front doors instead of our windscreens; by the walls and garden fences we are ever surrounded by; by the colleagues, loved ones and friends we virtually greet; and by the stillness of our great cities that have, by and large, ground to a hard, yet necessary halt the world over… And yet, despite our lack of freedom, nagging fears and the general uncertainty of life as we now…

  • Guests’ Corner: The Jax Blog

    As part of the next instalment in Guests’ Corner – a local and international travel interview segment on Tamlyn Amber Wanderlust – I chatted to Jacqui Cooks, South African blogger and social media marketer. Born and bred in Cape Town, thirty-something Jacqui Cooks is a woman of many pursuits and talents… Think: top South African blogger, social media marketer, global gypsy, TripAdvisor junkie and cupcake-er and all-round pleasure purveyor of note. Through her gorgeous blog, The Jax Blog, Jacqui indulges in travel with fresh eyes, seeing the world as an incurable ‘wanderluster’ and social media addict. What’s more, with some…

  • Guests’ Corner: Dominique in the City

    As part of the next instalment in Guests’ Corner, a local and international travel interview segment on Tamlyn Amber Wanderlust, I chatted to Dominique Heusdens, SA travel blogger and photographer at Dominique in the City. Having grown up in a minute, diamond mining town in Namibia, for Dominique Heusdens, her love of travel began at a tender age (like so many of us), as her family frequently travelled to Cape Town to stock up on goodies and necessities alike… She has fond memories of braaiing under the stars, and of endless roads flanked by changing, yet always beautiful, South African landscapes. While…