Magnolia Dell

Hallo, again.
We had a lovely weekend, with another walking tour of Pretoria. On this adventure we headed to the southwest of stately Unicadia, to Magnolia Dell. This is a lovely park featuring one of the better stocked playgrounds (perhaps V and Vi can help with a feature rating Pretoria’s playgrounds, who’d like to see that?), with an adjoining café. We played on this playground, on the swings, jungle gym, and on this neato horsey thing, kind of like a cross between a see-saw for four and a mechanical bull. That was loads of fun. We decided to forge onward past the café to seek the Blue Crane, a restaurant next to the Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary.
The Blue Crane was a nice place, though it seemed to cater to ex-pats. We arrived too early for the brunch buffet, so we didn’t get to try their potgie (poi-kee) to see how it matched up with Oom Piet’s.

We also went to a going away party and braai (BBQ) for our good friends whom we've just met and are now saying goodbye to, as they head back to Germany. They presented a great puppet show and we're sorry to have them leave. Auf Wiedersehen, Julia, Wolfgang, Selma and Noe!

Braai = lots of meat!
In other news, we may have found a car. Stay tuned...