Simone Visser is a journalist from the Eastern Cape of South Africa who recently moved to the UK. While partying is good, she has some advice and survival tips for life abroad as a party animal.
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Publish Date: 23 October 2009 : 05:23PM
Having your flight delayed is a truly painful occurrence, especially when you have been dropped off two hours early. You get to experience all those wonderful moments in departures when people break down into tears saying good-bye to loved ones. It is...
Publish Date: 08 October 2009 : 01:05PM
To temporarily be back under the South African sun is amazing, especially seeing as I was lucky enough to be in Durban on a perfect beach day with a temperature of 28 degrees Celsius. It was all fun and smiles with ice-cream, ladies dusting sand off their...
Publish Date: 05 October 2009 : 12:52PM
Financial planning involves more than just calculating your beer ration for the week. It is important to make those hard earned pounds work for you, regardless of whether you're planning to head back to sunny skies, high inflation and interest rates...
Publish Date: 28 September 2009 : 12:14PM
I had the kind of slimy, dirty fun that would have any UK Health and Safety official shudder and balk. I joined my mom on an outing to the Lion Park just outside of East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa - and I must say it was a highly enjoyable...
Publish Date: 28 September 2009 : 12:04PM
We have become pretty much accustomed to the race card being played at all levels of South African politics and society. I'm pretty much gatvol of this, especially if that clown of all clowns, Julius Malema (ANC Youth League leader), uses it to defend...
Publish Date: 14 September 2009 : 02:47PM
So I have been back in South Africa for almost a week and it has been rather an adjustment. No longer do I have to stand on the left when going up an escalator. I know dart between both ends with great glee. I do not feel watched by little electronic...
Publish Date: 28 August 2009 : 03:40PM
Guys – I just survived New York. What a great city. There is so much I can tell you, but it will have to go a long way to top this one. After a walk through Central Park I just happened to spot some guy with a lot of cameras. So I strolled over...
Publish Date: 27 August 2009 : 08:13AM
Punting is a rather posh pastime of the British or so I thought when my sister and her husband, Justin, invited my partner and I for an afternoon of punting. According to the Oxford Guide '' a punt is a flat-bottomed boat, typically used in small...
Publish Date: 19 August 2009 : 08:16AM
My family and I decided to do a bit of Welsh sightseeing this past weekend. Wales, home of the constenant (with names like Yr Wyddfa) , Brains beer and sheep (so many sheep I began refering to Wales as the Australia of the North). Two cars, seven South...
Publish Date: 07 August 2009 : 09:00AM
House sharing was a term I only learned when I moved to the UK. Back home one usaully ends up living with friends, partners, family or alone. Here you end up sharing a house with total strangers. Some people might say this is a great way to meet new people...