Leaving Johannesburg gave us some headaches as the GPS map Idownloaded from the Internet gave us some trouble. For some reason it avoided the freeways and lead us up the garden path and further… about 100 km further. First we headed for the city inspirit, a beautiful city with nice boulevards and pretty streets. We stopped at a shopping centre and found that Woolworth were the small players here while Spar and Super Spar are the dominant grocery retailers...

2014-03-25 Just arrived in Johannesburg. Nothing happened yet other than a long boring flight via Singapore, so perhaps to set the scene first a very short bit about some historical facts of South Africa. Better not to go into too much detail as the Dutch would no longer be proud of being Dutch. Holland was amongst other countries which started the slave trade from here and made their own country wealthy. And the English?… well they invented concentratio...

2014-03-10 Tąm Bįêt (Tam Be-Yet) Ending my last blog with the passport episode on Saigon airport meant that I was beginning my journey homewards again. I usually mention the name Saigon as this a name is known by most people outside Vietnam. Since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in the mid 70's the city was re named Ho Chi Min City. My blog’s interface only recognises this name. People refer to the city by both names. Leaving V...