by DebbieDerry | May 28, 2022 | Travel
If you want to give yourself a head start in understanding the story of Qatar and her people, begin with a visit to the iconic Qatar National Museum in Doha. The museum is angular, circular and almost space-aged. It sprawls over a large tract of land, alongside a busy...
by DebbieDerry | May 20, 2022 | Travel
We came over brow of the four-lane highway to be greeted by something shining extremely brightly in the distance below. For the late Sister Ethel Nomoyle, an Irish nun who established the Missionvale Care Centre in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), her first encounter with...
by DebbieDerry | May 14, 2022 | Travel
The muezzin calling people to prayer, shopping malls tinkling their tills till the small hours and the thump, bash and beeps of construction work continuing throughout the night … These are just some of the sounds that signal a very different rhythm for living in...
by DebbieDerry | May 6, 2022 | Travel
I love Souq Waqif. I enjoy it because it encapsulates so much of what I imagined of the Middle East – the rich and colourful sights of people going about their lives, the exotic smells and a cacophony of sounds that are foreign to this South African. Souq Waqif is a...
