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Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:25 am
by Alf
Pumbaa wrote:Awesome scenery especially in that evening light O/\

:ty: Alf
It's even better while having a braai and a X#X

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:27 am
by Alf
ExFmem wrote:Beautiful setting! If that's your (out)-laws house, lucky you. I would just sit, and chill, and stare, and "sigh....".

..0.. Maybe if you take mommy-dearest there it will render her speechless. ;-)

0/0 0/0 @ Mom O0 Thank you for giving us Alf. :yes:
They are renting this house. Busy building a house a block away from this one.

:no: :no: Mommy will be so excited so will talk even more :-?

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:55 pm
by Alf
The Sunday we decided to visit town O**

We started at the brewery for breakfast 0*\ 0*\ 0*\ 0*\

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After breakfast we explored a few more pubs 0:

At this restaurant the little aliens saw this old tractor

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Entertaining stuff, but it kept them busy :O^

All the shops and restaurants are build around this square where in the middle stands this monument erected by Paul Kruger in memory of 5 "boere" that were murdered by the British soldiers on a farm nearby called Ararat. This monument were first build on the farm itself and then later moved to the place where it stands today

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For those interested in the history you can google "die slag van naauwpoort"

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:21 pm
by Lisbeth
I like history a lot, but has always hated war, even if that is what history is mostly about :evil:

Actually they were killed not murdered......there was a war going on!

Starting the day with a beer 0*\ I hope it was a kind of late breakfast 0'

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:54 pm
by Richprins
Very interesting, Alpheus! :yes:

All sorts of things go on in Clarens, I've heard! Didn't Harry also go drinking near there recently? :-?

Nice and relaxing there around 10am...! ;-)

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:01 am
by Flutterby
Never too early for a beer. lol

Nice pics of the little ones. \O

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:06 am
by Alf
The Sunday turned out to be a long day and we eventually left the last pub after 10pm. :shock:

The Monday we drove to Bethlehem to fetch the medicine for the kids. On our way back my mother in law showed us part of the Lesotho highlands water project.

This is the Ash river outfall just outside of Clarens. This pipeline is 19km long underground from Lesotho

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Notice in the background the diameter of the concrete ring used for this pipeline

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Amazing engineering indeed.

This is the end of our short trip to Clarens. Thank you all for flying with us.

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:35 pm
by Lisbeth
There must be lots of pubs in Clarens lol

Is it water coming down from the mountains? Energy purpose or water supply?

Thank you for introducing us to Clarens ^Q^ ^Q^ \O

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:44 pm
by Alf
Lisbeth wrote:There must be lots of pubs in Clarens lol

Is it water coming down from the mountains? Energy purpose or water supply?

Thank you for introducing us to Clarens ^Q^ ^Q^ \O
It supplies us with water and supply Lesotho with power \O

Re: The aliens on a road trip

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:05 pm
by Lisbeth
:ty: \O