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As a freelance writer,  travel content takes up the majority of my time, however,  I have written emails, app content, website content, corporate video scripts, business proposals, magazine articles, Facebook posts, blogs, music video treatments, television promos, brochures, roadshow scripts and press releases.  My experience includes an animated feature film treatment, a documentary about a church organ and a number of articles and columns for different travel publications. For South African readers, I also managed to complete an episode of Tswelopele Production's Top Billing (flighted in November 2013) without using the word 'palatial' even once!

I often work for international clients. As a native English speaker located in a Third World country, the exchange rate often enables me to provide quality content at a First World standard at an affordable price. 

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A Sharonicles blog post entitled, “One more contract and I’m done!”, went viral at the end of 2018. It was picked up by Lonely Planet Pathfinders and has now been read close to 100 000 times.


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Welcome to the Sharonicles


The Sharonicles is a travel humour blog by a South African travel writer. With six years of experience as a cruise ship crew member, her travels on ships and on land have taken her to 57 countries on five different continents.  She photographs a plastic flamingo called 'Rodrigo' on her adventures because it seemed like a good idea ten years ago and it’s probably too late to turn back now. She also likes unicorns, carbs and referring to herself in third-person.

Here she shares advice, opinions and anecdotes revealing the funny side of travel from her experiences. 

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“One more contract and I’m done”

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An attempt to explain cruise ship employment addiction



We’ve all heard it before: “I swear this is my last contract” or “One more contract and I’m done.” These phrases are used a lot, mostly by people on their first contracts as cruise ship employees. They’re very serious about it as if they really believe what they are saying. The rest of us cruise ship veterans just smile at each other and shake our heads. We remember when we were young, naive, and new to ships, and we told ourselves the same lies. Being a crew member on a cruise ship is incredibly addictive. Well, some people hate it and never do a second contract. For the rest of us, quitting ships is like trying to kick a drug habit.
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The Butt-stagram: Because you haven’t been there until you’ve obscured the view with your rear

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(A guide to social media '#travel' success)

Those of you who know me, know that I’ve been working on a travel memoir for quite some time now. Lately, I’ve been looking into what it takes to get a literary agent, and from what I can tell, unless you’re already famous, your chances of getting published are slim to none. Agents and publishers are more interested in the size of your platform than whether or not you can string a sentence together. It doesn’t matter how many thousands of people (87) have read one of your recent blog posts (this one), an illiterate person with 2 million Instagram followers is more likely to get a book deal. 
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A Guide to Surviving Lockdown for the Travel-Obsessed

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Well, I think we can all agree that 2020 has been a bit of a jerk! Due to COVID-19, all your travel plans for the foreseeable future have probably gone to hell (and unfortunately, I don’t mean the one in the Cayman Islands). If you’re obsessed with travel (and lucky enough to not have more serious concerns during this time), here’s a guide to surviving your own 'itchy feet' during the lockdown. Below are some tips on how you can turn your involuntary staycation into an exotic adventure, just by doing a lot of the things you would do if you were travelling now anyway.

Even though you're in lockdown: 
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Things only crew members say

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A glossary of cruise ship expressions and their meanings

If you know what I mean when I say “your paisano got a banana for some kakaria to do with washy washy but he doesn’t give a bomba-clodt” you've probably worked on a ship. When you put 60 something nationalities together in an environment where they have to work and live in close proximity, a whole new culture forms. In that culture, people use words and phrases repeatedly - sometimes in their language, sometimes poorly translated from their language - and they tend to catch on. Here’s a brief list of some of the expressions and terms that are commonly used amongst crew members, and their meanings:
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My thoughts on travel mascots, photographing 
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nature of cruise ship employment, 
among other things.

True stories about trying to find trolls in 
Norway, toilets in Denmark 
and getting flashed in Cuba, to name a few.

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