Which home?

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

It’s funny. I read this and I don’t know what is meant by “home”.

If home is where I grew up in Kwa-Zulu Natal, it would be the Drakensberg mountain range. Central Southern Africa is at a relatively high elevation, and the Drakensberg is where the land crashes down in the form of mountains on the eastern side, as you go towards the Indian Ocean. I lived near its foothills, I’ve been driven through it to and from Johannesburg, and I got a taste of it on one or two church camps, but I’ve never really explored its most famous sites.

Cape Town feels the closest to home for me. These days my news feed is full of back to school photos there. The sunlight is so gorgeous I can almost taste it. I can smell the Cape pine trees and the shade they bring. In my love for it I think I’ve covered every corner of it. But I still have to paraglide off Lion’s Head.

If home is England, I want to see Durdle Door in Dorset.

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