Cape Town Mission Field
24 February 2018
Day 77
Saturday
This morning we took our time around the flat getting up and fixing breakfast then we headed off towards Paarl for a nice drive. And guess what? It was lightly raining with some nice 'dark' clouds all around the area.
We drove to the Afrikaans Language memorial, about 45 minute drive to a beautiful valley surrounded by gorgeous mountains. This is where a monument was erected celebrating the birth of a new language; Afrikaans.but before starting the tour we ate lunch at the little cafe on-site. We had bobotie. Made from curried mince with chutney and a quiche like topping with some yellow rice and baked squash on the side. It was amazing.
It turns out that Afrikaans is a mixture of several languages.
A. European (Dutch, Portuguese, German and English)
B. Khoi and other African languages (Xhosa, isiZulu, and seSotho)
C. Indonesian (mainly Malay)
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Largest column is hollow with an open top |
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Muhammad Joseph Benjamin with grandson, monument worker |
The architect, Van Wijk, ashes are actually cemented into one of the large granite boulders sitting just behind the monument.
We had a wonderful experience when we met Muhammad Joseph Benjamin who was taking his grandson on a tour of the monument that he helped build as a worker on the monument back in the 1970's.
We then toured a winery, Spice Route, down at the bottom of the mountain. We did a tasting tour of the De Villiers chocolate factory, made from Cacao beans from Uganda. They also had on-site an ice cream parlour, pizza restaurant, glass blowing, coffee house, and of course the distillery.
What a great day you two had. Fabulous pictures.
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