Blogs from Gauteng, South Africa, Africa - page 5

i made my way to the airport - and made it through security at 9am. It's an 11.35am flight.... For those of you who know my travelling style - I'm usually the person who's there just in time. Why wait around if you don't need to? Needless to say, the amount of times I've travelled and made it just as the flight was closing - more often than I'd confess to!! My husband is the one who needs to be a few hours early so he isn't stressed out. Not sure if it's a combination of our renovations (four tradies turning up at once just before 8am this morning wasn't conducive to hanging around at home) or finally being worn down from years of travelling with Todd and I'm finally in the habit of having to ... read more

Here are some photos of my trip that I couldn't post before because of poor or non existent internet connection.... read more

If there’s one note of consistency between my older writing and now, it’s that I usually have better things to do with my time when I’m tapping these out. In this case a speaker’s note for later in the week. In theatrical parlance, a script of sorts. Just as I am with improv, I’ll be pretty rubbish if I don’t prepare one for tomorrow. But here we are anyways. Let’s see. London was April, which means it’s time to move on to the bigger ticket item from September to November. Faced with three conferences more or less in a row, I opted to stay on the move for close to two months. This meant bouncing from South Africa, to Slovenia, to Russia, sandwiching in about two weeks of telecommuting from various hostels in odd parts of ... read more

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Hello All! I am well and truly settled into my third and final country in South Africa. Taylor has arrived and we are currently sitting in our lodge by the waterfront at Port Elizabeth, having flown in yesterday from Johannesburg. As you could probably tell from the ending of my last blog, I had my reservations about Jo'burg to say the least. And with good reason. I had met plenty travellers in Tanzania and Zambia with more than enough horror stories of being robbed from car windows, muggings in the street, and even being caught between gang shootouts. Having said this, I had also come across enough South Africans that were quick to tell me that the "City of Gold" was not as bad as others made it out to be. Furthermore, Taf, my Zimbabwean university ... read more