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“The Côte d’Azur is a mysterious place,” says Fered. “We cannot even begin to understand this.” Fered and my paths have just crossed, here on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice; it’s Friday, 22 July, days after the unspeakable truck attack that left 84 people dead and over 300 injured. I am not too sure […]
I used to think anxiety and depression were all a load of hogwash, those things cray-cray, pill-popping people go through; until, quite suddenly, I woke up as an expat living abroad and didn’t feel at all myself. It started with a panic attack in the middle of the night, when I was woken up by […]
Back in the day when I lived a relatively normal life, I ended up sat in one of those stiff, four-walled office interviews where the interviewer asked me — quite originally — where I saw myself in five years’ time. Bored by the question, I sat there rather straight-faced, stared out of the window and […]
“Does Europe feel like home yet?” asked a good mate from South Africa. “I can’t say it does – just yet,” came my reply. Although it did get me wondering when Europe would feel like home. I’ve been here over two years. Would it be when I learn how to speak the language? (French when I’m […]
A South African woman came by my Swedish brother- and sister-in-law’s bakery in Billeberga, Sweden the other day, and mentioned that she’d heard of another South African (me) who was flitting about town. And as the story goes with most South African expats – she proceeded to make a case for why she and her husband […]