by Peter van der Walt | Aug 29, 2022 | Adventures, Videos
Without doubt one of the richest architectural cities in the world – Bristol offers a mind-blowing variety of lines, angles and curves. At times you are very much centred and grounded in England – the unmistakable feel of a contemporary English city...
by Peter van der Walt | Jan 19, 2022 | Photos
At some random mommytown-suburb train station… a book exchange. Free. Take a book to read on your journey. Bring it back. Swap it. Leave a book. A culture of literacy. I’ve spotted little temples to thinking like this in England and Wales, in big cities...
by Peter van der Walt | Jan 17, 2022 | Photos
Like nowhere else on earth… Pretty much every place looks different, if you look closely and know what to look for. Flying over North America, it is hard to ignore the drama and theatricality of the terrains. Crossing the Sahara desert into Egypt at night, the...
by Peter van der Walt | Oct 20, 2021 | Photos
Eating lunch or dinner in a formal dining room can be very exciting. If you are born into the vanishing aristocracy, its all par for the course. But alas, for a colonial mongrel from dubious pedigree, such as myself, it is all very educational, entertaining and...