IT’S a golden rule she’s always lived by: work hard, but always make sure you have a holiday booked so you have something to look forward to.
For Mary Ipser, travel is the spice of life – and it’s this adventurous spirit that’s taken the 83-year-old Cape Town granny to nearly 80 countries over the course of her life.
Watching her breeze around her home in Bellville, Cape Town, that she shares with her husband, Claude (80), it’s hard to believe just over a year ago doctors were telling her that her travelling days were over.
She’d had a bad fall at home and hit her head against a chair, which resulted in a subdural haematoma – blood
