The Strachan Family Reunion and a Brief Return to Swaziland August 18th 2006 As a result of my flight from Lusaka to Johannesburg being delayed I ended up missing my connecting flight to Cape Town. This meant that I had to get a stand by ticket for a BA flight instead. Thankfully things improved from then on and I made it to Cape Town at 7pm. ... read more
Africa » South Africa 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
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ... full info