Richard Stupart
A blog by redferret
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Thoughts & Adventures of a traveller
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Things you can die from between Cape Town and Cairo
So planning has begun in earnest now. Ranging from wishful window shopping and looking at backpacking toys I really don’t need (another backpack? Slap) to more sensible things like travel insurance, visas and vaccinations. The latter being today’s topic du jour. I would far rather make my own new
From Cape to Cairo in a few simple steps
As regular readers of this blog will know, after originally planning to travel to, and then backpack Ethiopia at the end of this year, a change in travel plans of my intended backpack buddy led to a change in the scope of the project. Intending to travel from Cape to
More Musing on Memories of Mampoerfees
Some weeks ago, I was at the Mampoerfees (Mampoer Festival) in Cullinan, just east of Pretoria. I wrote about the bizarre sense of alienation I felt as an English South African here, but realise in retrospect that I completely forgot to actually talk a little more about some of what
Some more thoughts on questions we ignore
So we are driving back from a fun-and-fire-filled day yesterday afternoon. Kelly and I, that is. It’s long drive back, with at least five hours of fields, mountains, small towns, more fields, more mountains and so on. Depending on your company, these trips generally tend to go one of two
We don’t need no water
With this Tuesday being a holiday, any South African who has been paying even mild attention has realised that the country had more or less shut down on the Monday to make an extra long weekend out of the time available. A friend (who will go unnamed for her and
Planning them plans and scheming them schemes
I have long been a fan of mad plans. The sort which seem just that little bit dafter than the vanilla plan, but falling just short of laughing-and-forgetting-it madness. The recent days have seen a few new additions to what was formerly a large blank wall in my home. Specifically,
A dozen words for dog
A few more arabic classes down the way and the reading thing is getting easier by the day (pops fat head). Besides a multitude of new and entertaining sentences that I can now construct - such as ten different activities that a donkey might perform in a car (a really
Like the proverbial englishman in New York
I am an English South African. Henceforth called an ESA to save my poor little typing fingers (which is most of them) This means that somewhere along the line, my parents’ parents’ parents were dropped off, most likely in Cape Town, by the ships of the British Empire back in
As easy as wahid, ithnayn, thalatha
Some years ago (many in fact, when high school was a very recent memory and the fun times of tertiary education were only beginning to unravel before me) I learned Portuguese. Unlike Afrikaans (one of the eleven, at least, languages spoken in the wide and diverse country that is South
Box Theory on the way to God’s Window
The thing about living in a country is that you all too often fail to appreciate (or frequently even see) much of what makes it so interesting to the rest of the world. I think sometimes you just get stuck in the anecdotal rut and forget that there are
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