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Category Archives: African Journey
Twenty-One Years After Apartheid.
20-Jul-15Statues.
20-Jul-15buy provigil in the uk Had lunch with a pair of Classicists, teachers at one of the universities here in South Africa. They were lovely people, doing their best to inspire their students, and conversation was genteel and thoughtful, as it usually is among people who truly feel themselves to be teachers first and foremost. But wanting a bit more, […]
To the University.
20-Jul-15We are headed now back to Potchefstroom to take up our duties at the university. And now truly begins the part of the journey where I have to face the question of Latin in South Africa.
Tolkien and South Africa.
17-Jul-15A picture of me at the place where J.R.R. Tolkien was born. Just to establish nerd credentials for all time. It did amaze us that this is not a tourist spot at all, that there is no J.R.R. Tolkien Museum in the town where he was born, or anything similar. If he had been born […]
The Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien.
17-Jul-15June 27th. Bloomfontein. Bloomfontein is different from the other places we have seen; a large, sprawling city, with more middle-class homes than we have seen anywhere else. Much of it looks like the middle-class suburbs of Los Angeles: sundrenched gardens made leafy by ample water, gardens closed off by attractive walls of adobe and concrete, […]
Ellyphants.
17-Jul-15June 26th. We made it to Graaff-Reinett, a pretty little town in the Karoo. We are staying at a lovely bed and breakfast, where we were greeted with a glass of sherry and shown to our big four-poster bed. I’m in the tub now. As usual the place is empty, though it’s Friday night and […]
Leaving Addo.
16-Jul-15Leaving the park we quickly went into the town of Addo to get some gasoline. The gas station was swamped, with hundreds of people: they were all lined up at the two ATMs, chattering away. Stores in the small town were also open, past five p.m., which is not normal. Trying to bring the car […]
In the Peaceable Kingdom.
16-Jul-15June 26th. Well, we came to Addo for the Elephants, and we got them: they are everywhere here. Our guide pulled up right next to an elephant feeding beside the road, and we just sat there watching him, only fifteen feet away. He continued grazing undisturbed by our presence; I don’t know if I’ll ever […]
Beautiful Woman In Lion Country.
14-Jul-15June 26th. We came down to the water-hole after lunch at the lodge to look at the animals – the lodge is sited on a ridge above this water-hole – and found ourselves surrounded by birds, begging for a bit of our orange (I took a video of one particularly vocal cara avis, but my […]
Oliphants Stop the Traffic.
14-Jul-15June 26th. We are now awaiting our “game drive,” as it is called, when a safari guide will take us out into the veld animalia ad videnda; we spent the morning doing a game drive of our own, as the South African national parks allow people to go out into the wild themselves. Our resolution […]