Tomorrow, the 4th of March will be my 26th birthday. It will be my first birthday away from home. It’s so strange to think I’ll only start celebrating the day here in the US, and all my friends and family will already be half way through the day in South Africa.
Today is a big day in South African history! We celebrate the release of a wonderful, forgiving, humble, kind and revolutionary man. A father to our nation, Mr Nelson Mandela, known to us as Madiba.
This weekend was quite unusual. I attended a wedding, but as a guest! I didn’t shoot a wedding on Saturday. I collected my dad from the airport (my parents are now both back permanently! yeh!) and then I enjoyed a real home cooked meal for Sunday lunch! Wow, unusual, but great!
Yesterday Iaan, I, Adri and Lizelle randomly decided to take a drive to Somerset West and go for sushi. On our way there we were talking about running your own business and having your “own time” but also the hard hours that go into editing and admin in the early hours of the morning.
Nadia and I spent the last 3 days of our trip in Lisbon, Portugal. We were going to stay in Paris for 7 days, but decided we were going to pay for food and accommodation anyway, so why not visit another place while we’re there. So we decided to spend the last weekend in Lisbon.
(BTW for those of you who are going to travel to Europe, check out this amazingly cheap airline Easy Jet, they have great specials! But don’t even think of having a bag more than 20kg! I had to re-pack mine twice!)
I loved Lisbon! If I had to sum up the city it would be the following:
colour. design. real. graffiti. restaurants. fresh fish. sangria. port. authentic. awesome
Apart form the serious black and white photos I took in Paris (my previous post), I also enjoyed the following colour ones.
When you walk in the streets of Paris you understand why so many pictures of Paris are in black and white. The city is such a classic and it just calls out for the basic of basics…black and white.
“Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind” Kathrine Naido, SAA employee
Here is a little bit out of my diary from my recent trip to France and Portugal:
“Traveling opens your eyes, it challenges your perceptions and pre-conceived ideas. It changes your views on the world. And makes you ask many questions.
When you travel it stimulates your creativity. It makes you think about things beyond your every day life. It takes you out of your safe place and shows you a bigger picture of what the world is like.
To travel is to learn. It’s to learn about other people and about the world, but mostly it teaches you about yourself.
Today I’m leaving for France! This though is still not real to me as I’m still sitting in front of my computer..trying to tie up all the loose ends of the last few weddings. The past few weeks I’ve been thinking about how I can change the way I do things to make it more efficient and [...]
Today is my 25th Birthday and I decide to share 25 random things about me that you probably don’t know.
