{"id":4179,"date":"2016-06-04T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2016-06-04T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:58:36","slug":"nervous-nelly-and-being-intrepid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/nervous-nelly-and-being-intrepid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nervous Nelly and being Intrepid."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always loved stories of intrepid women who went from England or Australia to places like India or Africa in the 1900’s or 1930’s. Brave women in big hats with long skirts and field glasses and a steely, determined chin who said things like “fiddlesticks!” when confronted by an elephant far closer to her mosquito net than was comfortable.<\/p>\n

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With all the risks in that kind of travel – typhoid and malaria, residents who did not agree that white people should trample their country, probably a lack of women’s loos – \u00a0I wonder whether I would have ventured further than my front door if I had the same opportunity.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’m going to Africa for the first time and my inner Nervous Nelly is carrying on like some turn-of-the-century pale-faced debutante. All fainting and smelling salts.<\/p>\n

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade travel advice for South Africa<\/a> puts it at Level 2 “Exercise a high degree of caution”. This is currently the same advice as for Belgium where the National Terrorism Threat Level is Level 3 of 4, indicating that a serious and credible threat exists. In South Africa the caution is due to the high level of crime, rather than risk of terrorism.<\/p>\n

My university, when giving me permission to travel, required me to fill in a “DFAT 3” form, which asks me to list security precautions due to our corporate travel advisory company having a high risk rating for the country. I had to demonstrate that someone at the conference knew my movements, I had a known roaming phone number, that I was staying at accommodation of a particular star rating and that I had a transfer from the airport to my accommodation. I have been sent warnings about what to do if I am mugged. I have been advised not to use ATMs in public, or to show my phone obviously in the street. And if I travel in a car to make sure the doors are locked and the valuables are in the boot.<\/p>\n

I am sure all will be OK. If those women in the 1930’s could do it in long skirts, then I am sure that me and my iPhone will be just fine.<\/p>\n

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