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23 May A Luxurious Getaway In Mauritius
Half the fun of travel, as we’ve seen with our recent trips through East Africa, Central Europe, Austria’s Winter Wonderland and now Mauritius, is that it’s the people you meet and get to spend time with, that really make the trip. We’ve been extremely lucky to meet some crazy, cool, and creative people during our 15 months, but one of the highlights for sure, has been the recent trip we did with fellow South African photographers, Roy, Gareth, Gav and Scrooch, and the wonderful social media team at the LUX* Resorts & Hotels in Mauritius. We met with the LUX* team (btw you should seriously check out their array of hotels and resorts – Mind. Blown.) for a campaign we called #LUXin4days, and...
17 May Cheeky Animal Mugshots From Around The World
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Let me start off by saying that animal portraiture is a lot harder than it looks. We knew this from the many hours we spent ‘dog stalking’ back home at some of Johannesburg’s many parks. Anyone remember @PixelPaws on Instagram? Yes, that was our first ‘shot’ at moving-target photography. We literally have thousands of dog portraits on our hard drive, so we should look at sharing more of those… But right now, here are a few mugshots of some of the friends we made along the way. SD A grinning Alpaca: taken in Salzburg, Austria A hungry Highland Cow: taken in Salzburg, Austria A yelling Horse: taken in Umbertide, Italy A cute Deer: taken in Munich, Germany A chewing...
18 Apr Our Year In Numbers: First Year Of Nomadic Living
March 2nd 2015 was departure day. It was the day we waved goodbye to South Africa, goodbye to a comfortable life with a comfortable salary, and goodbye to the somewhat predictable life we’d lived for over 29 years. On March 2nd 2015 we opted to say hello to spontaneity, curiosity, and a life-changing experience liberating us from everything (other than four bags of essentials and our hungry craving for adventure and need to create). I would like to say that March 2nd 2015 was a good day. It was also over a year ago, which is f%#*ing crazy! I sincerely feel like this adventure of ours has just begun, and we’ve been on the road for nearly 14 months now!...
01 Feb The #31days (Veganuary) Vegan Challenge
Ever since 2013, people from all over the world have been celebrating Veganuary (pronounced vee-gan-you-airy) which, like other global do-good movements (Movember and Earth Hour come to mind), aims to raise awareness to a cause or concept with a mass following, in the hope that a) the idea will spread; and b) that the small taster* will inspire the participants to practice the movement in everyday life (not just for the selected time period). I didn’t know too much about Veganuary (or veganism for that matter) until recently. Sure, I’d heard of it, and since one of our friends, Dani, is a vegan, I was exposed to the ideas and recipes that were purely plant-based. I was diagnosed with a dairy...
11 Jan Collecting Experiences, Not Things: Trail To The Alps Tour
Our motto and motivation is to “collect experiences, not things”. Whilst on our journey, we’re aiming to spend our time and money on spectacular experiences, to be left with incredible learnings and memories, not tangible objects. This way, we’re sure to keep our lives light without additional luggage, but also be the change we want to see in the world. Our next featured experience is the Topdeck Travel tour, Trail to the Alps. Let’s talk about group travel for a minute. First few things that came to mind (up until recently) were: hangovers, no sleep, strangers, tears, young just-left-schoolians, and awkward small talk. A short while ago, our idea of group travel was a fairly chaotic one, as we remembered our...
09 Oct Into The Wild
After recent city explorations in Athens, Florence, Perugia and Istanbul, one of our favourite travel companions Langly, challenged us to #PackAndGo get back into the wilderness, like we did in the summer in Norway and Sweden. As we’re both lovers of the outdoors and the environment, we couldn’t have run out of our accommodation fast enough. We started thinking about the crisp fresh air, wild landscapes, indigenous wildlife, mirrored lakes and never-ending hiking trails that we experienced just a few short months ago, and it made us hungry to get out again. So our trek into the serene meadows of Austria began. We soon realized, that a life outdoors is so incredibly natural for us, that we almost blended into our surroundings; we became tiny...
13 May 3 Days In Berlin, Germany
There’s receiving-a-weekly-fluff-calendar-addressed-to-you-from-Instagram cool. There’s bumping-into-your-favourite-celebrity-at-your-local-deli cool. And then, there’s Berlin. Although we only spent a couple days roaming the inner city neighborhoods, we were blown away with Berlin’s ahead-of-the-curve freshness. It’s as if the whole town has been painted over with a sleek design brush. Everything from the chic glass parliament buildings, to the intricate typography found on store signage. We couldn’t get enough. Our day began with a cultural visit to the Berlin Wall. As children, we only read about this historical site, and it was a surreal experience to be surrounded by this powerful symbol of the world’s history. As both our families were directly affected by the war, the feelings we were left with that day, will...
06 May The Ultimate Pack-Your-Bags-We-Are-Going-To-Berlin Soundtrack
After two incredible months of Austrian wanderings, Stevo and I recently packed our four bags (and an extra one full of Austrian snacks including Cabanosi, Haribo gummies, and slabs of Milka, obvs) and departed on an eight-hour train journey to Berlin. Train tracks above the colourful cities running along the treetops, passing through delicate rain showers, next to multi-toned, untamed forests, with winding dirt roads between bright canola fields simply wouldn’t be the same without a magical soundtrack. So we attached our tiny white-tree-branch multi-split-headset-adapter (if you don’t have one, you need to get one) to the iPad, and placed the ol’ Music app on shuffle. Below are some of the tracks that accompanied us on our journey – one...
