We’ve had another lovely weekend, with lots of excitement including the acquisition of a CAR!
Yes, we’ve left the hoi polloi on the buses behind, and we will miss them. We may visit the old double deckers again for nostalgia purposes. But we’ve bought an old Mercedes 230E that will make getting where we want, when we want, hopefully a bit more manageable.
We celebrated the addition to our kraal (corral) with a trip to the National Botanical Gardens, which are just a short trek east of Pretoria proper. Here we saw many lovely South African plants, including the succulent garden (‘fat plants’ in Afrikaans), the useful and medicinal plant garden, Ndebele compound (top pic) and traditional doctor’s office (second pic with the girls), and the cycad collection (pic 3). Also, lots of bird of paradise flowers (Strelitzia reginae, pic 4) which are everywhere and a national symbol.
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Are most of the trees there deciduous or evergreen? You should be starting fall, if they have deciduous trees are they as colorful when they turn?
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