A WOMAN who left her native Billinge for the plains of Tanzania two years ago has returned home for a holiday with a host of memories - and a brand new accent!

It's just eight months since Eileen Moser last visited home and in that time she has managed to pick up a strange half English-half Swahili tongue.

Eileen, who helps her husband to run a company organising safari holidays, told the Star: "It is only eight months since I was last in Britain so I was amazed at how quickly I lost my accent. The problem is that while I am in Africa I hardly speak any English at all because my husband is German and a lot of the guests on the safari are Europeans."

Eileen, pictured here with a brochure promoting one of their safaris, first met husband Alfred while on holiday in Tanzania three years ago. After carrying on a long-distance romance for a year, Alfred decided to move back to Africa to start up the safari camp on the Selous Game Reserve and asked Eileen to marry him and join him out there.

She said: "I had a job in social work at the time so it was a complete change of direction for me but I've never regretted it. It is a very satisfying lifestyle and the animals are amazing."

Meanwhile, Eileen is using her latest trip back home as a working holiday by trying to drum up some business among Northerners.

"The only English people we seem to get taking holidays on the camp are from the Home Counties and I think it's about time people from the North West got to experience the wonderful wildlife of Africa.

"It would also help me to get some much-need practice speaking the language I grew up with!"

ANYONE interested in further information about holidaying at the Moser's safari reserve can call St Helens 894399 or fax Eileen at the camp on 00 255 51 116413.

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