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Travel blogs from Getaway.co.za.

Getaway photojournalists

Don Pinnock - Getaway editor
My life has been somewhat colourful over the years. I've been an electronic engineer, a professional yachtsman, a cable-car operator on the Rock of Gibraltar and more.

Justin Fox - Getaway deputy editor
I landed up in the world of travel-writing almost by accident. I was all set to become a University lecturer, but academia didn't quite have the ingredients to quench my wanderlust, so here I am: 10 years in the travel game.

Leigh Stefanski - Getaway.co.za editor and Getaway foodie
When I was growing up, I was the biggest coward you could have ever met. Scared of everything and willing to eat nothing but fish fingers and cucumber, if anyone had told my folks I'd find a career in the hallways of Getaway as a food and web editor, they would have near-died laughing.

Alison Westwood - Getaway photojournalist
I've been working as a travel writer in southern and East Africa since 2004. Writing for Getaway gives me the chance to have some great adventures out there. And this blog gives me the chance to share them with you - warts and all.

Evan Haussmann - Getaway photojournalist
To earn a crust and fund my wanderlust I've been a copywriter, DJ, film location scout and freelance photographer. Now I've become Getaway's newest photojournalist. Somebody pinch me.

Lisa Johnston - Getaway photojournalist
You might think I got the rough end of the deal being Getaway's Joburg-based photojournalist, working so far from my colleagues in the Mother City. But after seven years at a desk job, I now get paid to travel. Who needs the mountain, I've got the world.

Sarah Duff - Getaway.co.za intern
I've always made journals and scrapbooks of my travels, starting from my first overseas trip when I was ten. I chronicled what I did, ate and saw every moment of every day. Now I get to indulge in my wanderlust and writing passion by working at Getaway.

Rob House - Getaway art director
My background has been in the design and photographic arenas. Projects have taken me from the sleazy backstreets of London's downtown Soho to the magnificent misty slopes of the Virunga mountains and Rwanda's endangered gorillas.


Travellers


Tony Park
I discovered Africa late in life - when my wife, Nicola, and I first visited from our native Australia. We were hooked immediately. I don't think you have to be born in a place to love it. When I'm not working as a freelance journalist, I'm writing novels set in Africa.

Romaney Pinnock
A doctor once diagnosed me with the "Travel Bug". Not something related to my stomach, rather, related to my heart and soul. He said that this "yearning' would pass. It didn't. And thus I find myself venturing all over the planet.

Pedal2Peak
Hi we are Jonathan Hamilton-Browne and Marc Bosch from the Pedal2Peak Charity Cycle Tour. Two St Francis Bay boys in our late twenties, challenging ourselves to experience the true beauty of our continent while raising funds for our chosen charity the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).

"MAX" Journey - Create - Realize
I am a young land artist, on a journey of exploration and self-discovery. You see, using natural and foraged materials opens up my mind, helping me see things differently, reaching into untapped creativity, harnessing the power to reconnect people with one another, nature and spirit.

Johan Anderson
Sometime during my birth I must have swallowed a feather because I seem to have a talent for flying without an engine. To fly like a bird and see what they see, to feel what they feel has been my passion for more than 20 years - it is no surprise that my greatest joy in life is to share that experience with people.

Cameron Ewart-Smith
I've never been able to shake my wunderlust - not that I've tried very hard!
From the hallways of Getaway as a travel photojournalist to the editor's seat at Wild magazine, my career has been dedicated to travel.Now I'm presenting a television show on the Transfrontier National Parks and it's going to be an incredible journey.

Walking the line
One late night Ray Chaplin realised it was time to fulfil his hidden passion - to venture and explore. His 2009 adventure is a solo walk across South Africa from Cape Town to Beit Bridge and then back again by bicycle. The journey is set to cover about 5 000km and is likely to take from 105 to 120 days.

Island Dreaming - Dr Joe Starke
Join Dr Joe Starke as he joins the Life 2 The Limit adventure in which 10 people will spend a month in total isolation on an island in the South Pacific. As the 10 adventurers try to survive without the commodities of the modern world and with no infrastructure, no external help and very few tools to assist them, the challenges will only continue to grow.

Anna Versfeld
Since finishing school Anna has been travelling solo, on and off bikes, whenever and wherever possible. Her life now consists of attempting to juggle running the capoeira non-profit organisation she co-founded and doing a master's degree in social anthropology at UCT.


Scott Ramsay
Howzit! That's "hello" in South Africa, my native country. I work as a photographer and writer, and when I'm not in Cape Town, I travel to those wild and beautiful places that make Africa unique. At the moment I'm travelling around Zimbabwe and this blog provides snippets of random info, photos and video from my travels in this great country. Internet connections are unreliable in Zim, so content is uploaded when possible!

OverlandintheSun
Ryan Sanderson-Smith, Gwyn Roberts and Shaun Lane are travelling from London to Cape Town down the east coast of Africa in a 1989 Toyota LandCruiser partially powered by solar technology.

Rachel Hamada
Rachel Hamada is a freelance travel journalist based in Zanzibar, often specialising in the overlap between travel and social or cultural issues. A professional journalist for over ten years, she was previously senior journalist at Holyrood, Scotland's main political magazine, and also worked for UK newspapers and the Economist Group.

Coast 2 Coast 4 CANSA
The Coast 2 Coast 4 CANSA expedition will see six South Africans riding Yamaha WaveRunners from Mozambique to Namibia. The 2800-kilometre journey, which will take up to four weeks, is being undertaken to raise awareness about cancer prevention and funds for CANSA.


Green Blogs

Marion Whitehead - Getaway sub editor
Marion is Getaway's sub-editor and long-time grassroots green activist. Cyclist, recycler, hacker, hiker and garden greenie are other activities that keep her busy.

Moving Sushi
Fishery biologist Michael Markovina and photojournalist Linda Schonknecht decided it was time to make their contribution to marine conservation. They're now headed through 42 countries across Africa, Europe and Asia over 24 months.


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