My seven-week stay in New York ended with a bang: I booked one last big job before hopping on the plane back home. And it was only when I arrived here in the Mother City, and jumped into Cilliers’s arms at the airport, that I realised how much I missed my life and routine here [...]

This city can be intimidating. It is chaotic, loud, messy, and crowded - a never-ending display of all things busy and bizarre, and to survive, you need to know a few things. The public transport system is huge and works like magic. The subway system is a maze of tunnels and an ant’s nest of [...]

Noise. So much noise. I cannot even sleep through the night without waking up to loud sirens and endless hooting (nothing pierces your soul like the sound of someone honking his car horn for 5 minutes straight; and no, I am not exaggerating). Yes, it is the city that never sleeps, because at night all [...]