Lecture 1
AN ENGLISH WOMAN LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE BUSH WITH ELEPHANT, LION, RHINO AND SNAKES………….
An inspirational story of a 50 year old English woman who just went to Africa on her own, knowing only one friend, to escape the English winter, after her children had left home and taking early retirement after 23 years in television in UK.
"I rented my house in Hampshire and took a house for 6 months in Capetown, as the only person I knew in Africa was there. Whilst there I was offered a holiday house in the north of South Africa on a private big-five game reserve called Mabula…. I stood on the balcony of my room all night listening to the sounds of the bush and knew I had come home…….
A week later I had found the perfect site for a house on Mabula with a panoramic view of the foothills of the Waterberg Mountains, had sold my house in England and spoken to an architect in Pretoria.
I moved into the house I built 8 months later and spent the next year learning to live alone in the bush, but among a community of staff running a tourist destination. The 'learning curve' was the best thing to happen to anyone of this age.
I met elephants, rhinos, leopard, buffalo and snakes on a daily (nightly) basis at my house that I did not know how to deal with. I had to learn 450 kilometers of the reserve's dirt roads where I did not recognize any features to guide me."
What an adventure…
