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The Lucky Travellers - Where it all began

About seven years ago, Wikus and I were both studying at the University of Pretoria. I was in my second year and stayed in the ladies residence, Asterhof, while he was a fourth year in Sonop. A friend of mine was working for the campus newspaper at the time and asked if I knew any rugby players in Sonop. She had to write an article about the residence most likely to win the res rugby tournament that year. When we got to the LC De Villiers sports grounds, we asked around and determined that Wikus was our guy. He had just captained his team to yet another victory, but agreed to share his thoughts. The interview was quick but the impression lasted…

Two years after our initial meeting, we had both started working and the chances of running into one another at a University social were slim. I was working at Unisa and coincidentally there was a lecturer in my department by the name of Danie Theron who had mentioned his son to me before, casually asking if I was in a relationship.

Who knew that when I agreed to join a friend at a Sonop social, Wikus would be there, ready to sweep me off my feet?

A few weeks later Wikus asked me to join him and some friends at their family game farm where he also asked me to be his girlfriend on 30 April 2011. It was the first of many weekends spent in the warm bushveld sun where we discovered that we share a strong love for nature and spending time with good friends.  

A visit to the Kruger National Park later that year confirmed that both our hearts belonged in nature, and that we loved exploring new places together! We enjoyed visits to our family farm outside Thabazimbi, a beach holiday here and there, and couldn’t resist when friends asked us to join them on an island breakaway to tropical paradise, Zanzibar! We explored some of the best wine estates in the world in the Western Cape and even committed to join a group of friends hiking the Otter trail, 42 kilometres of magnificent, untouched coastline.

In 2013 we turned it up a notch by booking our first Contiki holiday, a European Discovery. We visited 9 countries in 12 days, made such good friends and great memories. Here I became the luckiest girl in the world, because as soon as we were on a gondola in Venice and I thought things could not get any more romantic, the man of my dreams bent down on one knee and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him, as his wife! This just made the vacation a hundred times more special!

The next few months we spent most our time on wedding planning, except for a few much needed bush breaks in between. We got married on a game farm with elephants in the background. Wikus then exceeded my expectations once more with the most incredible honeymoon imaginable – in the Serengetti! I still can’t believe the magnificent beauty of endless plains and cannot wait to go back.

These few short years filled with amazing memories lead to the suitable nickname, the Lucky Travellers, and we feel lucky to be sharing our stories with you!