Berend E

@TraveOnWorld (854)

Georgia

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A whirlwind 3 weeks brough us back to South Africa

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 25 Mar

A very blessed and beautiful day to all of you! I hope you are well. I've not been in a place or space to check in and respond or post for the last few weeks, much have happened. I've left the lands where the song of the...

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Early spring - Daffodils

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 6 Mar

Despite the weather turning for the worse today, I think I can safely say that I am ready to dance into spring. I seem not to be alone in expecting a new rhythm - everywhere we walk the daffodils are gently swaying in the breeze....

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9-year old rapper (no it is not sweet and nice)

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 1 Mar

My sister asked me to take a listen to this, as my youngest nephew seems quite enthralled by this sort of music. I listened, or shall I rather say, I tried to. I get we need a permissive society for artistic ideas to flourish...

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Tap has been replaced.

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 29 Feb

We had a broken tap, luckily not spraying water everywhere, but just a loud stream jetting into the sink. Landlady says no plumber needed, no problem, just buy new tap, is cheap. My son in law will put in. OK, sure, very easy....

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Let them eat... cereal?

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 27 Feb

How times have changed. The CEO of Kellogg's reckons that giving chicken the night off might be the best thing consumers can do to stretch the contents of their wallets. He conveniently forgot to add the price of milk as well as...

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Getting legless for insurance

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 26 Feb

I'm sure alcohol must have played a role here, nobody can be this daft and still be sober. This person, who was already a paraplegic, decided he had no use for his legs and hatched a plan to claim some much needed insurance money....

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A very windy Monday

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 26 Feb

This morning when I woke up, I thought the train station had a glut of freight trains coming in. Turns out the roaring was actually a strong gale force wind (80 km/h +, 9 Beaufort). And it is freezing, must be coming directly from...

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A visit to Balneoresort Tskaltubo (“Stalin Bathhouse”#6)

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 24 Feb

A more detailed and for me, exploratory, visit to Tskaltubo, included a stop at Spring Number 6 in the main park. This is part of the European Ancient Balneological resorts with the only radon-carbonate mineral springs at a...

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Friday lunch out

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 23 Feb

Restaurant lunch, not something we do often. We've passed a nice local place, nothing pretentious, a few times while out walking and decided to to give it a try today since we wanted to be out. Very nice concept - buffet style...

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A noisy and once in a lifetime spring coming for Illinois

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 23 Feb

There are not many insects that live as long as a periodical cicada. They can live up to 17 years, mostly underground. When they emerge after all that time, it is to mate and then die. Only the males sing, and each species has a...

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Egg Cups

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 22 Feb

I love egg cups. It is an eminently civilised manner of eating a boiled egg. The egg comes out easily, you don't need to burn your hands, its a neat and it keeps the egg warm. But I see, after some trawling on the net, that you...

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A few thoughts on hair cutting

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 21 Feb

Got my locks shaped at a hairdresser. Granted, both locks and shaping leans more to hyperbolic dreaming than to the actual happenings at the salon. A few observations about this process: Why is it that as I grow older, I've got...

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Pork flavoured coffee anyone?

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 20 Feb

Honestly? Coffee flavoured with pork sauce and pork breast meat for garnish. At almost $10 to the cup. I read somewhere that in prehistoric times, humans could discern 10 000 different tastes in the wild. I...

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83, and still not successful

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 20 Feb

And here we have a February entrant for idiot of the year. At 83, one would think that you would be at the top of your chosen profession. You should be able to do whatever it is you do for a living, fairly easily. Not his one. At...

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Marathon kitchen session

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 20 Feb

Phew! Bit off more than I could chew with the prep on this one (in a manner of speaking). Lunch was a variation of coulibiac (a fish pie made with salmon) but since I did not have salmon, it inadvertently became an...

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How do they afford a gun?

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 20 Feb

Not only the guns. Guns by themselves cannot really be deemed deadly. Guns need ammunition in order to be weaponised. I read this article about a teenager shooting a school principal. I also read a week or so ago about some...

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Do you crave Ginger Ale when flying?

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 19 Feb

So there we have it - ginger ale is the go to drink when flying. It apparently has to do with the festive feeling while flying or some psychosomatic feeling of comfort. To quote: “When you think of flying, you just think of...

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Well priced Bananas not to be

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 18 Feb

Yesterday we went to Carrefour - not the hypermarket, but the small one in town. Dalene saw bananas advertised at far less than half the price bananas normally sell for. So we went bananas and took a whole bunch. But we could not...

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Foggy Friday and a new bread

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 16 Feb

Woke up to being fogged in this morning. Its like being inside a cloud that is just sitting and not going anywhere. And its gray. Really the sort of weather that makes me feel listless. To at least attempt to be a useful person...

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Would you tip beforehand?

Berend E @TraveOnWorld (854) • Georgia 15 Feb

In my head, asking for your tip before you even do anything, either makes you a very optimistic person or you are so bad you make sure you get your "reward" before the customer actually has the opportunity to experience your bad...

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