Chessa-lee: Pelgrims Rest

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23 Aug 2007

Food and menu

This picture is not mine, I found it on the net....the bowl on the right is a salad, called "three bean salad"...I don't know if you know this salad, quite nice, you just mix the beans and ..whallah! you've got a salad!

And here...ladies and gentlemen....for the.....boerpampoen!

It is the bottom one, but this is a pic from the net, and it doesn't have those "cracks"....but oh dear! It is sooooooo......nice! I want my mummy!!!!!!!
And this menu....during our visit to Pelgrims Rest...the historical town in the Eastern part of the country, Mpumalanga....which means "where the sun rises"....

Found this pic just now on a site....this is the Boerpampoen/pumpkin

20 Aug 2007

Upsetting news

Apart from the daily news of people being murdered which you read in all newspapers on the first 5 pages - at least - and most murders never get published, because it is "bad publicity" for SA and for tourists visiting the country.....this article published in a newspaper in Mpumalanga, which we read while on holiday at Pelgrims Rest in August, was REALLY upsetting!!

This shows you how the government of the day spends the country's money! R3,5 million on the commemoration of the death of President Samora Machel (of Mosambique) 20 years ago!! Divide R3,5 million by about 14 and you get the amount in pound. Just think how many houses they could build with that money for people who don't have it.....think how much they could do to improve the country's education, which is in a state! think how much more they could pay teachers to improve the quality of education in "certain" schools, think how many new computers they could buy for schools to educate the children in a modern way! What about AIDS! The list is endless!! But,..... the outside world don't care, they just pour more and more money into the pockets of the people who are in charge....doesn't matter WHAT they do with the money! WAKE UP world!!

23 Jun 2007

Pelgrims....again!

Pelgrims Rest

Pilgrims Rest

This is a beautiful historical town......about 1 hour's drive from where I grew up in the Eastern part of the country....Mpumalanga...near Graskop/Kruger National Park/Lydenburg.

For our honeymoon we were booked in the Royal Hotel, in an Annex.....Follow this link... Pilgrims Restand read more

Geniet wat jy hier vind....Enjoy what you found here...

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade--C J Langenhoven...Seek in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future...Paul Kruger... Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek --Langenhoven... Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected --Langenhoven... Goeie boeke en musiek verryk jou siel -- Good books and music enrich your soul --Langenhoven... Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved now love the more. --Thomas Parnell

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in--Knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak--Heraclitus, Fragments. Vuil wasgoed is om te was!-- Langenhoven 'I think one move ahead - but it is always the best move'-Reti Some part of a mistake is always correct. - Savielly Tartakover

There is no failure except in no longer trying--Elbert Hubbard. The secret of success is the ability to survive failure --Noel Coward.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language, it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.~Robert G. Ingersoll

Avoid the crowd, think independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece! - Rumi.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy. Chess is the touchstone of the human intellect.-John Wolfgang von Goethe.

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. - Thomas Huxley.

Jou persepsie hang alles af van hoe wyd jou opvatting van die digkuns is. - Joan Hambidge.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. - Proverb.

I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. Spanish proverb.

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates.

Val eerder in my sop as in my rede. - Langenhoven.

See in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future..Paul Kruger - President of the ZAR. Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek. - Langenhoven. Friends should be like books, few, but handselected...Langenhoven.

Good books and music enrich the sould - Langenhoven. The secrete of success is the ability to survive failure. - Noel Coward.

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in..knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak. --Heraclitus, Fragments.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. - Stanley Kubrick.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor

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