Monday, October 01, 2007Ever feel like you spend your whole day reminding everyone else to do their jobs?
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My Big Trips
- • 2004 March - Southern Africa
- • 2005 August - Singapore & Thailand
- • 2006 June - Egypt
- • 2007 August - East Africa
- • 2008 January - UK Business Trip
- • 2008 November - Spain, Portugal & Morocco
- • 2009 September - Zanzibar Beach Break
- • 2009 October - Canadian Polar Bears
- • 2010 August - Peru
- • 2011 AprilMay - Trans-Mongolian Railway & China
- • 2011 August - Botswana
- • 2012 AprilMay - Namibian River Rafting
- • 2012 August - Vietnam & Cambodia
- • 2013 September - USA & Bermuda
- • 2014 April - Cape Roadtrip
- • 2014 October- Turkey
- • Local Tourist Ideas in South Africa (Joburg and Cape Town)
- • Accomodation in South Africa (Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, Limpopo, The North West, The Eastern Cape and The Western Cape) and Mozambique
- • Books by genre: Adventure, Biography, Chick-Lit, Crime / Mystery, Economic Theory / Philosophy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Sci-Fi / Fantasy or South African Fiction
- • Movies by genre: Action, Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Drama, Historical Drama, Musical, Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Slasher, Thriller or Western
- • Recipes
- • Restaurants in South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, KwaZulu Natal, The Free State and The Western Cape) and the UK (London)
About Me
- phillygirl
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Sift through my insanity and revel in my genius! -- Oct 2015: My little family (boyfriend, baby, dog & cat) & I moved to Cape Town in July after our darling daughter was born in April. It's nice living back home for me after 11 years spent living in Jozi!
Blog Awards
2007
- • Finalist in The SA Blog Award's Best New Blog category
- • Featured in the September Issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (p. 40)
- • Finalist in The International Bloggies Award's Best African Weblog category
- • Finalist in The SA Blog Award's South African Weblog of the Year category
- • Finalist in The SA Blog Award's Best South African Personal Blog category
- • Winner in The International Bloggies Award's Best African Weblog category
- • Stopped entering these things ...
My Life List
(in Alphabetical Order)
- Eat at Ristorante Hotel Grotta Palazzese in Bari, Italy
- Eat at the Waterfalls Restaurant at Villa Escudero, The Philippines
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Get Married in Vegas, USA
- Go Diving at Alexandria, Egypt
- Go to Haesindang Park in Samcheok, South Korea
- Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, USA
- Go to Mount Nemrut, Turkey
- Go to The Owl House in Nieu-Bethesda, SA
- Go to the Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand
- Ride The Great Elephant in Nantes, France
- Ride in Gold Leaf service on the Rocky Mountaineer in Canada
- Road-trip across America
- Scuba Dive at the Underwater Sculpture Park, Mexico
- Scuba Dive with a Humpback Whale
- Scuba Dive with a Manatee in Belize
- Scuba Dive with Sharks in Nassau, Bahamas
- See 2Cellos Live in Concert
- See a Duck-Billed Platypus in real life
- See the Body Worlds Animal exhibit
- See the Aurora Borealis
- See Lake Hillier in Australia
- See Lemurs in Madagascar
- Snorkel in Jellyfish Lake, Palau
- Stay at Attrap'Rêves in Marseille, France
- Stay at the Ice Hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland ... or the Kakslauttanen hotel in Finland or Jukkasjarvi hotel in Sweden
- Stay in a Tree House at Finca Bellavista, Costa Rica
- Swim in Phosphorescent Bay, Puerto Rico
- Swim with Pigs in Big Major Cay, Bahamas
- Travel to Easter Island, Rapa Nui
- Travel to Cuba
- Travel to Mexico
- Travel to Pompeii, Italy
- Travel to Tikal, Guatemala
- Travel to Timbuktu, Mali
This is just one of those places I'd like to say I've been to. Growing up I didn't even believe it was a real place, I thought it was like one of those fantasy things that was the furthest thing from everywhere, One of those joke places that you'd ship your little sister to if you could :)
Tick
(also in Alphabetical Order)
- ✓ Dive with Whale Sharks (Tofo Beach, Mozambique in Apr04)
- ✓ Do the Inca Trail, Peru (well, The Lares Trek is about as close as I'm gonna get to this one - Aug10)
- ✓ Fly over the Nazca Lines, Peru (10Aug10)
- ✓ Get a Tattoo (24Apr10)
- ✓ Go to Alcatraz in San Fransisco, USA (25Sep13)
- ✓ Go to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, USA (23Sept13)
- ✓ Go to Pamukkale, Turkey (19Oct14)
- ✓ Go River Rafting (Orange River, May12)
- ✓ Hold a baby Panda Bear (Chengdu, China on 12May2011)
- ✓ Ride an African (Livingstone, Zambia in Mar04) and Asian (Chaing Mai, Thailand in Aug05) Elephant
- ✓ Ride in a Hot Air Balloon (Masai Mara, Kenya on 16Aug07 and Cappadocia, Turkey on 13Oct14)
- ✓ Ride on a Husky driven dog-sled (Churchill, Canada in Oct09)
- ✓ See a Body Worlds exhibit (Cape Town in Dec12)
- ✓ See Billy Connolly or Eddie Izzard Live (Eddie Izzard in Feb10 and Jun13)
- ✓ See Machu Picchu and climb Waynapicchu, Peru (22Aug10)
- ✓ See Polar Bears at Hudson Bay, Canada (Oct09)
- ✓ See the Great Wall of China (04May11)
- ✓ See the Mountain Gorillas (DRC in Aug07)
- ✓ See the Terracotta Army (British Museum, UK on 24Jan08 and Xi'an, China on 10May11)
- ✓ See the Wildebeest Migration (Masai Mara, Kenya in Aug07)
- ✓ Swim with Dolphins (Ponta du Ouro, Mozambique in Dec04)
- ✓ Travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway (Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia in Apr11)
- ✓ Travel to Egypt (Jun06)
- ✓ Travel to Morocco (Nov08)
- ✓ Travel to Prague, Czech Republic (Dec97)
I've done this before but, it's a place I'd love to go back to - ✓ Travel to Portugal (Nov08)
- ✓ Travel to Spain (Nov08)
- ✓ Travel to Thailand (Aug05)
- ✓ Travel to Venice, Italy (Dec97)
I've done this before but, it's a place I'd love to go back to - ✓ Travel to Zanzibar, Tanzania (Sep09)
- ✓ Visit Kolmannskop, Namibia's Ghost Town (06Mar04 & 02May12)
- ✓ Visit the Amazon Jungle (Peru, Aug10)
- ✓ Visit the Hunterian Mueseum (19Jan08)
After reading The Knife Man by Wendy Moore, this was a must-see for me - ✓ Visit the Vrolik Museum, Amsterdam or the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia (21Sept13)
- ✓ Watch a live Baseball Game (NY Yankees vs. SF Giants, 20Sept13)
- ✓ Watch a Cirque du Soleil Performance (Varekai at the Royal Albert Hall, UK on 25Jan08, Saltimbanco in Joburg on 17Mar11 and Dralion in Joburg on 22Mar13)
- ✓ Watch the West End production of Phantom of the Opera (Jan98)
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3 comments:
Yes. I spend my days making other people's lives run smoothly at work.
It's annoying.
Me too, and then I STILL get asked if I wouldn't maybe mind just photocopying that ginormous pile of Very Important Documents while they skive off to lunch with a client. Hierarchy sucks ;-)
Thanks girls :) It's good to know I'm not the only one!
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