Our life in Africa - Part 1

In October 2013 me and my husband Zane decided we wanted to try and make a go of living in South Africa on a more permanent basis. It wasn't something we took lightly, but lets just say we didn't exactly plan every detail of the move like any normal human beings would have.

Packing our belongings in just 4 suitcases, we began our adventure on a couple of one way tickets and a lot of praying.
We decided to rent a house in the small town of Hoedspruit, around 4 hours from Johannesburg, and one of Africa's biggest safari destinations.

 Here is our house. A huge wooden cabin on stilts! A total of 4 bedrooms and 1 pool. Now as I mentioned before, we are not the most organised pair and we had actually never seen this house before we arrived. We knew it was in the right place and that it had 4 walls, but that was about all we knew. 
I can not express the relief and joy we felt where we pulled up to this little beauty. It was so perfect and rustic it almost didn't feel real. Not to mention that the total rent per month was equivalent to £200. 
 
 

The view from the house was breathtaking and was perfectly positioned for incredible sunsets almost every night.  There was a small river running through the end of the land which inhabited a pod of hippos including a baby, pretty much the cutest thing I'd ever seen.

My days usually involved a tortoise, porcupine, hippo and even 2 wild horses passed through.