Category Archives: this is south africa

In the background…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2012

I’m still messing around with (literally) about 1000 photos that I’ve taken over the past two or three weeks – you’ll get to see them in due course. In the meantime, here’s one of the lighthouse at Cape Agulhas that it has been suggested might make a nice desktop background. If you want it as [...]

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Moerse Farm Stall, Napier (& more)

By 6000 | 6000 | January 6, 2012

We decided that since we had the time and inclination, we would stop at some of the places we never stop at en route to and from the cottage while on our way back to Cape Town today. Top of the list was the Moerse Farm Stall in Napier, which regularly almost entices us with [...]

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I shall be quiet tomorrow

By 6000 | 6000 | January 5, 2012

That’s because I’m using my last R4 of Vodacom airtime to post this. Tomorrow, back in range, I shall revert to my MTN SIM and contract cellphone usage. And then, tomorrow evening, back in Cape Town, I shall revert to the wonder of broadband internet. Who ever said that this place wasn’t civilised? (Although if [...]

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Sunset at the shipwreck

By 6000 | 6000 | January 4, 2012

When in Rome, do as the Romans. When in Agulhas, do sundowners at the shipwreck. Got it? The Meisho Maru 38 ran aground between Suiderstrand and Cape Agulhas on 16 November 1982. Since then, it’s been slowly breaking up, and the bow now sits proudly on the shoreline near the Southernmost point, acting as a [...]

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No Parking

By 6000 | 6000 | January 3, 2012

The typical South African mentality that certain rules apparently don’t apply to certain people (see previous posts referring to speed limits, seat belts, CTICC disabled zones etc etc) has obviously prevailed into 2012. This double cab was helpfully parked directly in front of the rather obvious No Parking sign on the road to the beach [...]

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