Nothing like having to empty your entire home. Ended up giving everything away - what I couldn't fit into my suitcase had to go. |
My first sign that this was the right choice. Two days after deciding to make the move to the UK, a colleague gave me this coaster! She didn't know of my plans yet. |
Paddington Bear, with St Christopher, will travel with me |
This seemed to fit. Two weeks after the decision was made to leave Cape Town, and start my gap year overseas, the panic set in. |
Paddington saying goodbye to Simonstown |
One of hundreds of sunset pics I took in my last two months in Cape Town. |
The chaos that was my home. I was RUTHLESS. |
Choice made. I'd rather be in live in carer, assisting someone in need, and travelling for a week each month, than be in an office all day every day, with no time or money to travel. |
I'm still wearing my butterfly. It never comes off. |
The hardest goodbye. Thank you Neighbour Nick for adopting my babies. Different window, same view. |
One last daytrip around the peninsula with Dawn. One to be remembered. |
I kept going back to Kirstenbosch Gardens. Every couple of days. Just couldn't say goodbye. |
The Boomslang at Kirstenbosch. The light at the end of my tunnel. |
I'm leaving, on a jet plane.... don't know when I'll be back again. My life reduced to two cases, and an abundance of dreams. |