Tag Archives: South Africa

MasterChef SA Season 4 is hot, eliminates 5 contestants in first week!

 

MasterChef Season 4 got off to a busy start, and three contestants out of the 20 were eliminated in the first episode broadcast last Monday! A total of five contestants was eliminated in the four episodes of last week.

I am not a M-Net subscriber, so I have summarized the first four episodes of Week 1 from the MasterChef SA Facebook page. Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 103 of Level 1, 11 January 2022

 

Tuesday 11 January 2022, Day 103 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for an upside down day, in a good way, starting with socializing in the morning and only finishing working and writing now; for a wonderful peaceful sleep last night; for two donations received for CAMPS BAY CLEAN, with a promise of a third to buy Gift more Pick n Pay gift cards 🙏; for an American Tourist Guiding client of two years ago confirming that he and a friend want to visit in March and asking me to design a Safari trip for them, a different kind of work to do in preparing a proposal for him 💙; for the loveliest tea meet at The Pottery with June Willy Temple, a most Continue reading →

European Union follows the lead of Germany and France in dropping its Travel Bans against South Africa and its neighbours!

 

More good news for South Africa is that the 27 countries of the European Union will be following Germany and France in lifting their travel bans against South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Mozambique,  Botswana, and Eswatini, according to a report today by BusinessTech.

The first news came today via a Tweet from the Presidency of France.  Continue reading →

More UK travel good news as it lifts pre-departure Test requirement!

 

From 4h00 tomorrow morning the UK will no longer require a pre-departure Test for vaccinated passengers entering its country, as residents or as tourists, Self-isolation has also been scrapped, reports TravelWeekly. 

However, within 48 hours of arrival, travellers have to undergo a Lateral Flow Test, and a PCR Test if they Test positive, so that the variant can be determined,

Scotland and Northern Ireland have not yet announced their regulations.

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