Category: ‘AU Australia’

Alive! The word pops into my head as we enter Johannesburg’s Oliver Tambo Airport.

Ironic really, isn’t it, for a country with one of the highest crime rates in the world? Yet I feel it. Sense it. Am reminded of a friend who says he comes alive every time he returns – feels boring, bland and disconnected for weeks in his new country, Australia every time he goes back.

“An electricity in the air” is how another friend describes it. People seem to laugh more, live more. Read the rest »