Free State

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…

2021 Autumn tour

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Post published:December 9, 2021
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Turning 60 years of age is an event you have to make special. I dreamt of visiting the Kruger National Park and spending my special day just admiring the stunning view at Olifants Camp. At least, this is what I wanted to do last year but Covid prevented all of that. Fortunately, SANParks was so kind to allow me to postpone my reservations to this year at no additional cost. So this tour will take you on a long road-trip, via family and friends on the way, to the Kruger National Park and back. The trip took a month and…

Loxton

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Post published:August 3, 2019
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We leave Mokala again via the Lilydale entrance route, and upon reaching Richie, where this road crosses the N12, we notice that there are many Anglo-Boerwar battle sites nearby. This area is about 50km from Kimberley, which the Boers besieged in 1899. In an attempt to relieve Kimberley, the British forces suffered severe losses at Magersfontein, one of the battlefields in this area. This is only about 20km north east from Richie and we decide to take a short detour to Magersfontein rather than driving directly south. We pass Modderfontein close to the confluence of the Riet and Modder rivers,…

Mokala

Mokala Game Reserve

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Post published:July 31, 2019
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We depart from Beaufort West at about nine in the morning because we have some distance to cover. We will not be taking the shortest route, as we would like to cover a route that we have not travelled before. We take the N1 and our first stop is at Richmond. We have not explored Richmond before, and this time we go for coffee and scones at Die Vetmuis farm kitchen. Delicious. I ask the owner about Richmond’s manual telephone exchange, that I read was still the largest in the southern hemisphere, and it turns out that she was the…