Can you believe it only 70 days to go before we start our
next adventure, still a lot to do and prepare, but so much can only be done a
week to 10 days to go, at least that is my theory.
I need to book “Salama” our car, in for a service as I do
not want what happened to a family that was on our last Namibia trip with us,
he had his car serviced the day before leaving Potchefstroom for Namibia and
200 kms down the road his wheel fell off causing an accident, he had to hire a
car to join the trip, seems the garage did not tighten the wheel nuts properly,
guess who will be checking his wheel nuts before departure and when "Salama" comes
back from service.
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| A 3 wheeler from way back |
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| AJS 650cc 1975 model |
We have had a hectic time of it in our sleepy holiday town,
Knysna, and we need a small break before the Oyster Festival in July. As I
mentioned in my last post we had a vintage Car Festival, which included
motorbikes and latest models of cars, it was fascinating, as you walked around
you would hear comments like “My Dad had one of those and at the time it was “
The Car” then there was
“Look at that engine it was so simple
even a fool like me could fix it” and one lady commented on seeing a 1920 Ford
“you wouldn’t find me dead in that” I was also guilty looking at a 1970 AJS 650
Sports Twin I told Denise I had one of those, exactly the same colour, I must
say it looked very puny against a 1000cc BMW of today.
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| BMW 1000cc Sports Model |
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| Brought back many memories this AJS 650cc Sports Twin |
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| Denise and her MG choice |
We spent a couple of hours viewing these fantastically well
looked after vehicles and some looked like they would be a good investment IF you could pick them up cheap and fix
them up to manufacturers specifications.
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| I think this was a Sunbeam |
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| Denise said I can have a motorbike as long as it has 3 wheels |
Then we had the Pink Loerie Festival and if you are into
that sort of thing it was the place to be with lots of events for all the LGBTI
participants I include some photos from the web sites. Google tells me that
LGBTI stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (Questioning)
the latter, it states, are not sure of what they are.
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| Whatever takes your fancy |
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| Knysna supports everything that brings business to the town |
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| Two of the lovelies attending the Pink Mardi Gras |
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| The eventual winner overall |
Then we had the Speed Festival over 3 days known as the Jaguar
Simola Hill Climb they race their cars up Simola hill for 1.9kms at an average
speed of 181.456km per hour, the winners time in qualifying in a 1989 Dallara
T189 single seater sports car (Formula 1) with Andre Bezuidenhout behind the
wheel. You had a Nissan GTR doing it in 39.892sec and a classic car, a Chevron
B19 turning in a time of 42.795sec. I am told that it was very well organised
and the petrol heads got more than their share of adrenalin. I am including a
couple of photos of the cars to get you drooling if you are into cars and motor
bikes old and new.
I thought the pace in Knysna had slowed down somewhat, but
Denise had other ideas and for Mothers Day lunch we had 3 Mothers/Grandmothers
plus two, thank goodness she did not have the view that she would do nothing
and the lunch was a great success.
Then on Wednesday the 17th May, Denise and
two of our friends decide it was time for a Safari dinner and we get to cook
the main course. The theme was South
Africa and we all had a great time, that is one of the advantages of being retired you can have a party on Wednesday and not worry about how you are going to feel on Thursday.
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| Night skys over Namibia cannot wait |
