What do, or would, you miss most about SA?
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Pints said:
No. Absolutely not.
My in-laws are forever asking for us to even go back for a holiday and I won't even do that. I don't feel I can take my daughters back there for even a short time.
That is a shame grandparents not being able to see their grandchildren.I know there is Skype.I hope you will be able to go and take your daughters soon.My in-laws are forever asking for us to even go back for a holiday and I won't even do that. I don't feel I can take my daughters back there for even a short time.
Foppo said:
That is a shame grandparents not being able to see their grandchildren.I know there is Skype.I hope you will be able to go and take your daughters soon.
Sadly not, chap. In-laws have to come over here every 18 months or so.I cannot and will not take my girls over there with a clear conscience.
It'll not improve in my lifetime, so we'll continue to rely on Skype.
I try to go back as often as possible! I'm from the UK but grew up in SA (from 6 yrs to 30 yrs old) and consider Africa my home.
My Dad and one of my sisters still live there in Salt Rock and Umhlanga, Durban. Was there just a few weeks ago and I'd move back in a heartbeat but my Belgian wife has her family here and isn't keen on being far away - but she loves going there.
I miss safari's most. Love being in the Bush, watching and photographing animals. My family have a holiday home in Kruger so we go often, driving through Natal and Swaziland up to Kruger. Great stuff!
Foods? Well, the South African Shop in Maidenhead keeps those cravings at bay - you can get pretty much everything here in the UK nowadays.
My Dad and one of my sisters still live there in Salt Rock and Umhlanga, Durban. Was there just a few weeks ago and I'd move back in a heartbeat but my Belgian wife has her family here and isn't keen on being far away - but she loves going there.
I miss safari's most. Love being in the Bush, watching and photographing animals. My family have a holiday home in Kruger so we go often, driving through Natal and Swaziland up to Kruger. Great stuff!
Foods? Well, the South African Shop in Maidenhead keeps those cravings at bay - you can get pretty much everything here in the UK nowadays.
Coolbanana said:
I try to go back as often as possible! I'm from the UK but grew up in SA (from 6 yrs to 30 yrs old) and consider Africa my home.
My Dad and one of my sisters still live there in Salt Rock and Umhlanga, Durban. Was there just a few weeks ago and I'd move back in a heartbeat but my Belgian wife has her family here and isn't keen on being far away - but she loves going there.
I miss safari's most. Love being in the Bush, watching and photographing animals. My family have a holiday home in Kruger so we go often, driving through Natal and Swaziland up to Kruger. Great stuff!
Foods? Well, the South African Shop in Maidenhead keeps those cravings at bay - you can get pretty much everything here in the UK nowadays.
Hah! That's almost a parallel with my story. Born in the UK. Moved to SA when I was three, moved back to the UK at 30, and I'm such a regular at the Maidenhead shop that the shopkeeper now greets me if she passes me in the street. Their chilli bites last month were awesome.My Dad and one of my sisters still live there in Salt Rock and Umhlanga, Durban. Was there just a few weeks ago and I'd move back in a heartbeat but my Belgian wife has her family here and isn't keen on being far away - but she loves going there.
I miss safari's most. Love being in the Bush, watching and photographing animals. My family have a holiday home in Kruger so we go often, driving through Natal and Swaziland up to Kruger. Great stuff!
Foods? Well, the South African Shop in Maidenhead keeps those cravings at bay - you can get pretty much everything here in the UK nowadays.
I don't go back to SA as often as you and don't have family left there but when I do go back I realise how much I love the place. I wouldn't go back to live, not with the job market and crime rate and with a young daughter to raise, but I do wish things were better there. England is just so damn crowded. And the weather is s
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Pints said:
No. Absolutely not.
My in-laws are forever asking for us to even go back for a holiday and I won't even do that. I don't feel I can take my daughters back there for even a short time.
My mother passed away unexpectedly on Friday, so we're taking my 3 year old out for the first time, departing tomorrow for a week. Normally Granny and Grandpa came over to ours.My in-laws are forever asking for us to even go back for a holiday and I won't even do that. I don't feel I can take my daughters back there for even a short time.
In all likelihood this will be my last trip out to South Africa as I will no longer have any immediate family out there. Sad really, as there are a lot of aspects of Africa that I miss. Next year I'll have been living here as long as I lived there.
The only thing that we can't really get out here that I'll bring back is Peck's Anchovette.
I'm in Cape Town at the moment, two weeks into a month's holiday.
Enjoying the Peck's on proper 100% rye toast. Ocean Basket, Quay 4, La Perla. The good dirt cheap wine and all the smiling faces. Sun shining. All positives.
Electricity load-shedding, ANC, Malema, taxis and the general standard of driving, plus the extortionate cost of mobile telephony and data, are the negatives.
Enjoying the Peck's on proper 100% rye toast. Ocean Basket, Quay 4, La Perla. The good dirt cheap wine and all the smiling faces. Sun shining. All positives.
Electricity load-shedding, ANC, Malema, taxis and the general standard of driving, plus the extortionate cost of mobile telephony and data, are the negatives.
Pints said:
There used to be a choc chip yoghurt (you know how it's pronounced) which I used to get at Pick 'n Pay. I haven't found one that comes close to it here in the UK.
The yoghurt you get in the supermarkets here is all crap now. It used to be milk, yoghurt culture and fruit. Now they ALL have sugar, stabiliser (Milk Proteins, chemically modified starch), flavouring, colourant and pimaricin. Like plastic yoghurt...Just like the chemical crap sold in "well known supermarkets" in the UK.
I think you can get these in the UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000JUJMW8/
Which are similar, but not the "proper" one with the post.
Which are similar, but not the "proper" one with the post.
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