My husband and I are Australians (Brisbane is home) who moved to South Africa in 2006. After 6 years in South Africa we moved to Papua New Guinea for a whole new adventure.
This is primarily a craft blog. My main obsessions interests are knitting, spinning and quilting, and this blog is primarily about those activities. Although our daughter was born in October 2007 and so she gets a bit of air time here too, and I take great delight in inflicting my holiday pictures upon my readers.
Hi Ruth – lovely to read your blog – I am an Aussie married to an Egyptian and living in Egypt – it’s nice to read about other Aussies living os. I am also a knitter but you do truly lovely work. I visited Cape Town in 2007, lovely city. My husband and I own a travel company here in Cairo, Nile Wave Travel. Wishing you all the best, I will add you to my “must reads”
Lyndall
Hello,
I came across your website and found your articles on travel interesting. I just had a couple of questions so if you could e-mail me back that would be great!
Hope your trip to Oz is enjoyable, and helpful medically … and yes, i’m obsessed with art and craft too. We could be addicted to a lot of worse things! =D
Dear ruthsplace,
My name is Joyce and I work for ExpatFinder.com.
ExpatFinder.com is a free one stop website for people preparing to move or working and living overseas. We provide a myriad of services for expatriates and we have over 2,000 articles to help and support the people moving around the world and we are now creating an interview section to help the expats with real life experiences!
We quite enjoy your blog about living in South Africa, it is very interesting and informative. Would it be possible to interview you to further share some of your tips and feature some of your first hand experience as an Expat and your interview will be published on our Expat Interview section as a guide for our expat readers. The questions are mainly about the day to day lifestyle of an expat. If it would be possible, could you also send some photographs that we can use?
Of course, if you accept, we can add a link to your blog or some of your website.
The questions are enclosed, feel free to respond freely. You can return the doc with your answers if you accept this invitation.
Thanks in advance and do let me know if you prefer other means to conduct this interview and we would be happy to accommodate your terms.
Best regards,
Joyce
Hey Ruth,
My name is Joe Pinzone and I’m casting an international travel show about expats moving abroad. We’d love to film in South Africa and wanted to know if you could help us find expats who have moved there within the last 15 months or have been there for 3-4 years, but recently moved into a new home. The show documents their move to a new country and will place the country in fabulous light. The contributors on the show would also receive monetary compensation if they are filmed. If you’d like more information, please give me a call at 212-231-7716 or skype me at joefromnyc. You can also email me at joepinzone@leopardusa.com. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Joe Pinzone
Casting Producer
P: 212-231-7716
Skype: Joefromnyc
Hi
My name is Joyce, I am a marketing executive at expatfinder.com which is a leading expat information and services website.
I saw on your blog that you are and expat. I wish to interview you to further share some of your tips. The questions are mainly about the housing, the daily life etc.
It just takes 5 minutes (or more depending if you have lots to say 🙂
Of course, if you accept we can add a link to your blog or some of your website.
If you are interested to participate at this project, please send me an email at interview@expatfinder.com.
Hi Ruth. Are you still in PNG? I am an Irish quilter and will be in PNG for 4 weeks soon and then 4 weeks early in 2019 (am maybe more trips) for a work project. Would be nice to meet someone not connected with my work and to talk about quilting, local textile art etc. Want anything crafty brought? Email me if interested..