In the evenings we would wine and dine modestly

At a small padstal along the road east of Swellendam. The kind old couple let us stay in their camperwagon and cooked us tea and gave us cookies. The old man had Alzheimers and managed to forget my name 8 times in about 3hours time. Very charming.

Ode to a bicycle

July 6th 2007
So strong was the smell of the green rolling hills that it literally attacked me with childhood memories. I wasn’t cycling through the verdant valleys of the Western Cape, I was cycling down memory lane. Through an outdoor childhood spent at my grandfathers farm, running through the high late-summers grass, pulling pranks with my grandmother as she carried firewood down to the house and e ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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