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male elephant, Kruger National Park.

“Travels with a Biro” What I really REALLY wanted was for a huge elephant to walk through the camp. You know, right in front of our rondavel (hut).  But the camps are all fenced off these days.  This elephant was at Satara camp, and he stood for a while looking grimly at us on the […]

Posted 12 years ago

Dancer in Cape Town, South Africa.

“Travels with a Biro” Cape Town was chilly and very windy.  Very very windy and for three days the cable car up to Table Mountain was closed.  A big signboard outside a shopping area fell and killed somebody. The wind made it unpleasant to walk and we took a tourist bus around the city on […]

Posted 12 years ago

Elephant with Baby – unfinished sketch

Goodness – thank you all for your various messages, most of which were exclaiming “but where is your sketch of the mother elephant and her baby?!” So here it is. As you will understand I only had time to sketch this much, what with reversing the car and having Bruce’s camera flung in to my […]

Posted 12 years ago

We should not give aid to Africa.

“Travels with a Biro” We should not give aid to African countries. On a flight from Cape Town to the Kruger earlier this month I came across an article strongly questioning – indeed condemning – the provision of aid to Africa.   It is something I have said for many years: until African governments are forced […]

Posted 12 years ago

Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Kruger National Park, South Africa. We saw just the one crocodile.  He was so still and so silent that we could easily have trodden on him.  Not that we got out of the car, that is forbidden, though there have been one or two occasions where we had to quickly get something out of the […]

Posted 12 years ago

Dawn walk in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Much to my consternation Bruce signed us up for a Dawn Walk one morning.  Dawn starts at around 5.00, and it is the best time of day to see the animals.  I loathe leaping out of bed early (or even getting slowly out of bed early) but found myself (with Bruce) climbing in to a […]

Posted 12 years ago

One of my bird sketches

Click here to read about my dawn walk in the Kruger National “Travels with a Biro” If you enjoyed this item please share. Catherine Broughton is a novelist, a poet and an artist.  Her books are available as e-books on this site:- https://payhip.com/b/tEva            “A Call from France” https://payhip.com/b/OTiQ      […]

Posted 12 years ago

South Africa

“Travels with a Biro” It is an odd thing but when people meet me for the first time they quite often say things along the lines of “ah – you were there during apartheid!” Yet my friend Fi, who grew up in India, tells me that nobody ever says to her “Ah, the untouchables!” The […]

Posted 12 years ago

The Lovely and Very Nice Stories of Baby Black Rabbit

My Baby Black Rabbit series is out JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS.  Books 1, 2 and 3 are available on Amazon this week, and the others follow in the New Year.  Here is one of the illustrations Catherine Broughton is a novelist, a poet and an artist.  She is widely travelled and writes regularly for […]

Posted 12 years ago

Extract from “The Man With Green Fingers”

That afternoon she drove over to Limassol where she did a big shop at the supermarket called Orphanides.  From there she went in to the old part of the town and sauntered around the lanes, looking at lace and leather, and finally picked out a Versace handbag.  It was ridiculous to buy an Italian handbag […]

Posted 12 years ago

Books now available on Amazon:

A Call From France
French Sand
Kefani: An African Childhood
The Man With Green Fingers
Saying Nothing