Author name: Mike Garden

Hi All My sister-in-law recently brought her son out to Zimbabwe from England to show him the country where she was brought up. They were staying with me, so I decided to drive them up to Nyanga for a few nights. Springtime is the best time to visit the Eastern Highlands with the Msasa and Munondo trees

Hi All One of the things you must do when visiting London in the Summertime is to visit the centrally placed Hyde Park. I took a leisurely walk there one Saturday morning when I was over in the UK recently.  It turns out that a sizeable group of fun-loving adults meet at Hyde Park every

Hi All The one thing I enjoy about Zimbabweans is the way that the less able, elderly folk are taken care of by their immediate community. For some it is just something that happens in the rural village; for others it is generally helping with an “Old Age” organisation. Yet one of the most unheralded groups

Hi All The main reason I decided to study at the University of Natal in Durban was so that I would have ample opportunity to master the sport of Surfboarding! Many a lecture was skipped when there was a westerly offshore wind when us “Surfers” would rush off the North Pier to catch a swell.

Hi All I lived in London for the best part of a year in the late 1970s. Computers were “Coming of Age”, so I soon found employment using my Computer Science degree. The company I worked for was developing software for a Hotel Reservation system, ensuring valuable experience for my future computer programming career. I

Hi All Troutbeck has, over the past 50 or 60 years, proudly established itself as the central hub for tourism in the Eastern Highlands – all roads lead to Troutbeck! The main tarred roads taking one there from Harare are all in good nick, making the drive to this destination a whole lot more pleasant than some of our alternatives.

Hi All, Way back in the 1980s the, then very influential, Computer Society of Zimbabwe used to hold an annual week-long Nyanga conference alternating between the Troutbeck and Montclair Hotels. They always invited leading authorities in computing and accounting, like chairman John Dawson, to give lectures and lead discussions on recent trends. Computers were in

Hi All If you’ve been brought up in Zimbabwe and had a decent education (Gifford Tech in my case!) you will probably have been taught about the wonders of our outdoor life. You should, surely, know about the Big Five wildlife believing that to see all of them is something you must do before you meet up