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The whole village of Elim is a journey in time to visit. It's built by a German/Czech Christian sect in the 19:th century and stil today, everything pivoted around the church. All the houses in the village had Thatched roofs and roofthatching was the most common occupation among the men of the village. Today it's only coloured people living in the village. The Organplayer took us inside the church for a look and played some dramatic songs in German, Italian and Afrikaans on the huge organ, as a storm passed by outside the thick-walled church. The Chruch clock was a hunderd yers (or more) older than the church and had to be pulled up by hand, twice a week, by the village clock-master, and teh whole procedure was more complicated than I've got room to write here. Elim is a very special place, well worth visiting for an eerie time-voyage feel.
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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South African Flag 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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