Hannes' Photo Blog

Izak bought his first house close to the distribution center. The house is just right with a double garage and a guest bedroom, but the yar...

One can dine in some of the best restaurants, with food prepared by world-class chefs and scarce, expensive wines. So why is it then, that ...

It was so special to see Izak and Julia again. Izak picked us up at Miller station, minutes after Julia finished the local Gary half-marath...

Sometimes, when we travel in foreign cities, we take alternative transport; like today. We got on the South Shoreline train out of Chicago ...

On a cold night, with an icy wind blowing from the south, we watched the boys of Riaan and Christa representing the local high school in Am...

It is Nina's second birthday today. We left her wrapped present with Ernst and Catherine before our trip. This morning we were fortunat...

I was skeptical, but Annelie insisted in a nice way, so we had dinner at Sears - a famous, touristy diner. The service was friendly and cri...

We watched the start of the Nike Ladies Marathon from our window on the 32nd floor of the Grand Hyatt and then went for an early breakfast....

Litquake is a festival of writing organized annually in San Francisco. We arrived on the last day of the festival, but managed to attend on...

Me and Annelie spent a few hours at the Potrero Hill Festival. We listened to the live music and soaked up the atmosphere. Afterwards we ag...

There is a big difference between having breakfast in a plane, with safety belt on and sitting down in a dining room with starched, white t...

Sometimes, one must just see the clouds to know that there is an almighty Creator and that we are infinitely smaller in the bigger scheme o...

We enjoyed the brilliance of David Kramer with JP and Maritha at the Old Mill theatre in Paarl. David took us on a journey of his music dur...

The fires were lit early and tents and gazebos erected. The occasion was our church's annual festival of food. Our group were responsib...

My first meeting this morning was in the Cape Town suburb of Woodstock. I only found parking in one of the side-streets some distance from ...

There is something special about early morning cycles at this time of the year, like this morning. Started off in semi-dusk, with the sea-s...

My father was born on Friday the 13th. Rather than looking at this as a bad omen, he turned 13 into a lucky number. We closed his chapter o...

It was kind of symbolic: to see the many pigeons on the grass in front of my dads home when I stopped there this afternoon. He was so attun...

Dropping Annelie off at Durbanville Medi-Clinic for an operation on her wrist early in the morning. I am impressed with the professionalism...

As the two proud teams lined up for the national anthems on the green Newland's pitch, one could see a banner of one of the non-sponsor...