Solo traveling to Maputo from Durban by bus, attempt one After I had dropped my mom off at the airport it was time to get my shit in order. My South African 90-day visa was about to expire and I needed to get out of the country. I had decided to go to Mozambique and […]
Border Crossing: a solo travelers list of blunders from Durban to Maputo Read More »
Bus back to Durban A week ago, I took the bus from Johannesburg back to Durban. Despite having experienced similar issues previously, I had forgotten about the difficulty of hailing a taxi app driver to get to certain locations in the city.. such as bus and train stations. I almost missed my bus to Durban
Seafood, Conversations, and Soul Connections: Mother-Daughter Vacation in Durban Read More »
Durban night life post pandemic In many ways, Durban feels like a bubble that is holding its breath. Perhaps it is a projection of my own feelings but Durban seems quieter than it was pre-pandemic. A lot of businesses like restaurants and clubs were forced to close during the pandemic and could never re-open. Davenport
Jazz in Durban and Divine guidance Read More »
Great spots in Durban Now that I’ve made a new, vague plan, after accepting that nothing turned out as I thought it would, it feels a lot easier to move around in Durban. I have barely got a week left in Durbs before the SBKA dance festival in Cape Town starts but I have actually
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Friendship cross borders Yolande came to spend a few days with me at the Airbnb in Durban, to help me pull me out of my rut. I met Yolande the first time I came to South Africa, back in 2015. I had been accepted to do a 6 month internship at an NGO in a
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The unraveling As those who know me have learnt, historically I don’t do rejection, period. It’s not solely that I handle rejection objectively bad, it’s also that I avoid it to an almost comical degree. Despite this, I left my whole life, heart in hand and moved to a different continent. That I, security chasing
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Dumped in a foreign country It’s no fun being dumped in general, being dumped in a foreign country is not better I tell you. The boy-debacle was followed by a three-day-long pity party. It consisted of insane amounts of sleep, bad rom-coms and long contemplation sessions with Gabrielle’s Out Of Reach playing on repeat. If
Post boy-debacle: the solo journey I did not expect Read More »
Moving to South Africa Just a little while back it became apparent to me that I wanted to make a drastic change in my life. Propelled by the feeling that I wasn’t living life from my heart and by the longing to live an authentic life, however that may look like, I decided that moving
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