Holidays Archives - Our Fireside Stories

inChildhood, Eastern Cape, Expat Life, Family, Food, Holidays, Nostalgia

A pineapple is never just a pineapple

inFamily, Holidays, Natal, Nineties, Nostalgia

Beach holidays in South Africa

inHolidays, New South Africa, War

The tour guide versus the history teacher

inExpat Life, Family, Food, Holidays, Nineties, The Cape

The great lion attack (or something like that)

inFamily, Holidays

The monkey and the apple

inHolidays, Nineties, Nostalgia, Only In SA

That time the baboons ate our firelighters

That time when… Sitting around the kitchen table picking at leftovers after Christmas lunch or on the stoep as the sun goes down and braai smoke acts as a catalyst for tears and tales, or around a campfire singing Kumbaya. How else do we remember if not through stories—altered by time and confused by the fragility and fallibility of memory. The messy, tragic, beautiful, funny fables that make us who we are. The South Africa of our childhood and our parents’ childhood and their parents’ childhood and their aunty’s uncle’s mother’s friend’s childhood. And the South Africa of now, of course.

Category: Holidays