Photo: Pexel With a week of heavy news, we feel it’s just about time for a favourites lists. Essential as part of the tool belt of any traveller is a good book. Usually we turn to e-books or a hard copy for plane rides and local transport, but this time …

Image via Adobe Stock Those of us with itchy feet and a yearning for faraway places are in purgatory. With the most exciting (or scary) trip on offer being the one to the local supermarket, thoughts of exotic foreign beaches, glamorous boulevards, exciting African bush adventures and soothing Karoo sunsets …

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary …