The benefits of visiting friends[I]friends with or without conventional benefits in remote locations is that you get a much streamlined experience. My visit to Cape Town wasn’t cluttered with figuring out currencies, taxis[II]taxis are cars with drivers that you talk to and they drive you there and then you pay them in the local currency, …
I saw a flurry of brutality and flailing out the corner of my eye, as I wafted by the primary school at a leisurely pace in my Golf[I] Mark VII Golf R. Turning to face the source, I became entranced by the swirling forms of the two bodies thrashing on the ground in front of …
“Brilliant! A cheap flight coming back on Saturday evening from Tel Aviv,” I unwittingly enthused. My Airbnb host cheerfully pointed out that this was because there is no public transport on a Saturday afternoon. Because of the Shabbat. And despite the Ashkenazi [I] and lo, I am part Ashkenazi – ask my DNA according to …
