Impressions

The next few blog posts will probably be a series of impressions, nothing substantial, just life in South Africa.


Last week we hired a car to give us a bit more flexibility as we visited dealers in the search for a vehicle to buy. The car had to be returned on Wednesday and as I was waiting for my lift back to Wellington, I took this photo of the view across the road from the car hire in the town of Paarl.

 We are surrounded by magnificent mountains (not enough photos yet I know but there will be more eventually). Many times it's like driving across the backdrop to a film but as this is reality it only puts you more in awe of the creator of such beauty.

Fresh protea

Dried and sanded protea

Another beautiful thing is the national flower of South Africa, the protea. Fraser needed a keyring for all the office keys he's acquiring in Stellenbosch and Wellington. What more suitable for a left-brained IT sort of person than the sanded down heart of a protea made into a keyring and clearly displaying the fibonacci sequence in its whorls?