We finally got our visas - all of them - last week Thursday! A year and two months after making the decision to leave, we are off and we leave in ten days. Ten days! I think we are somewhere on a spectrum between brave and absolutely completely insane.[...]
I have been fighting what felt like a losing battle against Home Affairs for the last year! I have spent hours on the phone and thousands of Rands trying to get an error in my passport corrected. I could not understand how, through no fault of my own, t[...]
Janis, one of my oldest best friends from school, was always destined to be someone - she always worked harder than anyone at achieving anything she set her mind to and although I was heartbroken when she told me she was moving all the wa[...]
Life is so very short. A cliché but it's true. If we're really lucky we get to live a hundred years but the reality is that hardly anyone gets to live till then. Instead we live to maybe 85 if we live in place with decent health care... We har[...]