Do you consider yourself Haarlemmers? We just walked into a shop and startled the few people inside the shop included the owner; they looked at us probable thinking : Who are these white weardos. The South Africa southern route East –West , just inland from the coast is called the garden route. The landscape changes quickly as the long east-west ridges divide the land into a coastal strip along the ocean. Then there is the inland Garden Route area called t...

2014-04-06 How close is close enough? Just north of Port Elizabeth is a town called Uitenhage. A sister of our mother lived there most of here life. We had heard a lot about this place and set off just to have a look at it although we have no idea where our aunt and uncle are buried and where their children live. Doing a round trip we decided to drive through a park where there are lots of Elephants and possible Lions as well, we were told. Off we went to a pla...