Nothing could have prepared me for arriving in Africa...

I dusted the cobwebs off the outer reaches of my memory and had a think about how I felt when I first arrived in East Africa 16 years ago for my first living overseas adventure.  We never went home. The UK Telegraph Expat kindly published the piece; We arrived on honeymoon in Zanzibar just two days after our wintery UK wedding in Feb...

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	Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Expat
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