

From One Hole To Another - Part 2
(For those of you who haven’t read the previous article, here is a link to Part 1.) After a long day of travel and taking photos, we had dinner at the resort’s restaurant, then headed back to the room and set our alarm for 05:00 the next morning. Our aim was to set out at 05:30 for sunrise photos at the same spot: Hole in the Wall. The double bed in the backpackers was extremely comfortable, and the duvet – which seemed a little too thin at first and caused us to bring along


Competition #1 - Fantasy Ice Cream
Dear Readers, To celebrate the launch of Ordinary Extraordinary, we invite you to take part in our first competition. Would you like to enjoy a free Sunday Buffet Lunch For Two at the Kimberley Club? Then here is what you have to do: 1 - Like our page on Facebook. 2 - Share any of our blog posts with your friends on Facebook. 3 - Read our blog post titled "Our 3 Favourite Ice Creams," and then comment with your own Fantasy Ice Cream: Pick no more than 3 flavours of ice cream


Our 3 Favourite Ice Creams
When we met, That-man was the ice cream aficionado and i was the chocoholic, but as with most couples, likes and dislikes are eventually fused together, and today both of us have a deep appreciation for both ice cream and chocolate. i was curious about ice cream, its origins and history, so i did some research. Would you believe that ice cream is said to be 5,000 years old? Not the containers sold in our stores these days, of course (which would make it more suitable for scie


Fitness Journal - Reaching for the Sky - Part 1
2016 03 23 Since my previous attempts at becoming a long-distance runner in my mid-twenties, i ‘ve married that-man-who-laughs-at-me, and he taught me how to cook. That sentence should tell you where i started off this year, with a few goals in mind: The Kathmandu Half Marathon in October, the Annapurna Circuit in November, and Everest Base Camp in March next year, with a BMI of just over 30 and no fitness level to speak of. Almost three months after i’d embarked on this jour


Letter Photography - S is for Spiky
Since May 2015 we have been travelling around South Africa for a photo project we hope to share with you very soon. This brought us to the Garden Route in January. We camped in Nature’s Valley and Swartvlei, we hiked both the beginning and the end of the Otter hiking trail, we hung out with some bigfeet in Knysna, and eventually we made it all the way to one of my favourite corners of our country: Knysna Forest. The night before we arrived there, heavy rains fell, which meant


From One Hole To Another - Part 1
Our planned one-week photo trip to the Transkei had been reduced to a mere two days due to a business crisis and illness. Some extreme prioritising had to be done in order to focus on the most important photo opportunities. Eventually we settled on three places: Hole in the Wall (Transkei), Grahams Town (Eastern Cape) and Graaff-Reinet (Karoo). In the end, Grahams Town too was cut. We left Mthatha around lunchtime Sunday for Hole in the Wall. The first 95 kilometers from Mtha