Hello humans,
We left Zimbabwe last Friday, after spending a wonderful last few days on the farm. J and I went back to the blind to do some game viewing and where lucky enough to see a herd of 18 Eland come down to drink (see "some more pics of zim") Vanessa took us to some more of her favorite spots, some of these being a rock face with old bushmen paintings on them, a dinosaur fossil they found on their farm and a stunning potential picknick spot surrounded by baobabs, where we had sun downers on our last evening.
Anyway, the sad day came for us to leave and head down to Pretoia. Of course, not before Digby has another encounter with the robots in Beitbridge.. I think I missed out on telling the story of Digby coming by these robots the first time. The 4 way crossing in Beitbridge that has always worked on the "who comes fist, drives first, unless you think yourself important, then the other shall wait" system has now got robots, which confused Digby terribly.. His passengers had to carefully explain to him when to stop and when to go, and once the robot turned green, everybody hooting and shouting "go, go GO YOU IDIOT!!" with Digby calling out "no, no, its so pretty, I want to stay and watch what happens". This time, when we arrive at the famous robot, well.. I think the pic says more than words..
So now we are in Pretoria, celebrating my Kindergarten friend Dinis 21st Birthday, chilling, catching up on sleep and mails, organizing our kruger park trip and visiting sentimental places like my old house ore the mall we went to as kids.
Until something interesting happens,
xx b&j
p.s.: whoever has spent some time in Pretoria will know what I mean when saying a thunderstorm is moving in.. that smell of rain on blistering hot roads and lightning in the background.. After being in a very dry Zimbabwe, rain feels like something long forgotten and we're getting all bouncy with excitement
We left Zimbabwe last Friday, after spending a wonderful last few days on the farm. J and I went back to the blind to do some game viewing and where lucky enough to see a herd of 18 Eland come down to drink (see "some more pics of zim") Vanessa took us to some more of her favorite spots, some of these being a rock face with old bushmen paintings on them, a dinosaur fossil they found on their farm and a stunning potential picknick spot surrounded by baobabs, where we had sun downers on our last evening.
Anyway, the sad day came for us to leave and head down to Pretoia. Of course, not before Digby has another encounter with the robots in Beitbridge.. I think I missed out on telling the story of Digby coming by these robots the first time. The 4 way crossing in Beitbridge that has always worked on the "who comes fist, drives first, unless you think yourself important, then the other shall wait" system has now got robots, which confused Digby terribly.. His passengers had to carefully explain to him when to stop and when to go, and once the robot turned green, everybody hooting and shouting "go, go GO YOU IDIOT!!" with Digby calling out "no, no, its so pretty, I want to stay and watch what happens". This time, when we arrive at the famous robot, well.. I think the pic says more than words..
So now we are in Pretoria, celebrating my Kindergarten friend Dinis 21st Birthday, chilling, catching up on sleep and mails, organizing our kruger park trip and visiting sentimental places like my old house ore the mall we went to as kids.
Until something interesting happens,
xx b&j
p.s.: whoever has spent some time in Pretoria will know what I mean when saying a thunderstorm is moving in.. that smell of rain on blistering hot roads and lightning in the background.. After being in a very dry Zimbabwe, rain feels like something long forgotten and we're getting all bouncy with excitement
