My Somewhat beautiful Johannesburg

Advantages: Vibrant, plenty to do, fantastic people
Disadvantages: crime

...I had the opportunity of visiting Johannesburg in a very different light in January of this year, as a tourist. For you see I was born and raised there, but my boyfriend is very much English and had never been to Africa. When you are born somewhere you tend to disregard alot of the tourist stuff (much what my boyfriend does in London) which I can now see I missed out. Johannesburg is...

jessica801127 07.09.2005 18:40 (07.09.2005 18:39) · Read review
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The Sun Newspaper - Read all about it.

Advantages: Lots of up to date news and gossip
Disadvantages: A lot of advertising

...Like them or loath the tabloid press are now part of the British culture and they here to stay. According to my dictionary a tabloid is a newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard (broadsheet) newspaper, especially one that has relatively short and condensed articles and a large proportion of pictorial matter. However in more recent years the word tabloid has become synonymous...

micksheff 03.08.2004 23:03 · Read review
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Take an umbrella! :)

Advantages: good prices, huge variety of animals
Disadvantages: possibly too big for one day!

...The Johannesburg zoo is kind of a cultural part of everyone?s lives in Johannesburg ? if you haven?t been there, you haven?t lived! My first visit was when I was 7 years old. I was in grade 1 of primary school and it was our first school trip. My most recent trip was in 2007... My husband and I had moved back to South Africa for 11 months, and while we were there his parents visited South...

candzjay 12.10.2010 22:17 (12.10.2010 22:22) · Read review
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