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Olifants Rest Camp

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Post published:February 2, 2022
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This was what I planned for my sixtieth birthday. Enjoying one of my favourite views with a glass of wine while time has stopped and I can be sixty forever with the love of my life on my side. And I am now exactly doing this, with the exception that I am sixty-one. We leave Pretoriuskop early and head for Skukuza and then on to Tshokwane picnic site. It has been renovated recently and sports a shop and outdoor restaurant serving light meals. One can sit under a big thatch roof or on benches next to the river. Again, be…

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Pretoriuskop rest camp

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Post published:January 8, 2022
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The elephant is coming for us! Go, Chris, go! We do not have to depart too early from my son's home because it is not that far to the Pretoriuskop rest camp in the Kruger Park. On the other hand, you have to enter the park before the gates close at sunset. As we drive along the N12 highway, we notice the heavy smog as far as the eye can see. The Highveld east of Johannesburg is very industrialised and is also the source of most of South Africa's electricity with all its power stations next to the coal fields.…

Messerschmitt Me 262

Johannesburg

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Post published:January 1, 2022
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The Messerschmitt jet fighter swoops down from nowhere to attack the Spitfire fighter but the latter is not fazed and engages the Messerschmitt in a dog-fight. Meanwhile, the Mosquito bomber carries on undisturbed towards its target. A little while later a Ratel armoured vehicle and a G6 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzer, both VERY impressive South African war machines, grab my imagination both as engineer and military enthusiast. But let's begin at the start of this exciting leg of our trip. We leave Bloemfontein a bit later than planned and we are now in a hurry to get to Buffeldoorn near Koppies,…

Reunion Hall, Grey College

Bloemfontein

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Post published:December 23, 2021
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We depart just before sunrise from Stellenbosch. This is the way my dad did it when I was still a young boy. Early in the morning on the road - the excitement of being awake before others, sitting in a packed car on top of spare blankets and our feet on boxes filled with biscuits and rusks for the road. I have a trailer and we are only two in the car, so there is no need for sitting with our knees next to our ears like in my younger days, but the air of excitement is still the same…