Meeting new friends

Kolbus Human was an extremely friendly ostrich farmer, who took us in for the night. It was strange because I'd been wanting to try an ostrich omelet the whole day and the first thing he offered us was??? Next to our bed there was 7 bibles, I never asked Kolbus if he was an fanatic Christian an instead I just assumed that he was a compulsive collectore on famous books that begin with a "B"...

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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