Category: Travel
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Still cruising after all of these years
“I watched the coast. Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you – smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness A friend and I once…
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Vagabonds
“A man who leaves home to mend himself an others is a philosopher, but he who goes from country to country guided by blind impulses of curiosity is only a vagabond” Oliver Goldsmith, quoted by James A Michener in The Drifters One of the things I love about Michener is that he uses his novels…
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Being South African
Dis ‘n bitterbessie dagbreek, dis ‘n uitroep komma-punt Mabalel is huistoe, want sy mis haar eie kind Ek wens ek kon jou teken met ‘n koukie of ‘n kwas Ek wens ek kon onthou hoekom ek so bewerig was Ek wens ek kon jou oopskryf, met my balpunt pen behaag Ek wens ons kon saam…