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Travel Blogs from Ermelo
Internet grief - and the neighbours
... one?) So many Swazis seem resigned to the fact that they'll get it sooner or later......why do anything to prevent it? "Eat drink and be merry........" Unfortunately, while the merry-making goes on, the virus goes round. Right now, one of the boys in the next-door bungalow is facing the consequences of his deceased parents' actions. Let's call him Sibebe. We had a lovely meal with him and his 'family' a couple of ...
Scorpion
Alicia xxx***********<>{}[] At Bulembu me and Iain looked onder a log and saw a Scorpion !!!!!!!!! Ho Ho Ho everyone I hope you have a grate school play and you all enjoy it sorry I am not there !!!!!!! Don't worry we are still doing lot's of work . Best wishes Alicia ...
Alicia's tonsure, librarianship and dependency
... working - both home-school and saving the planet. Cathy and I have hatched-up a suitably Heath Robinson dental surgery for Bulembu - hygienic but locally serviceable. Monday found us touring Build-It (a builder's merchant in Mbabane) for building materials to build it. Being so remote, the clinic needs to be very simple. It's all coming together nicely. Tuesday found us indexing a pile of donated books for the ...
The 43,000 year old mine
... prices are such that the old spoil tip is being reworked - hence the lorries creeping up and down the hill, gradually turning the road to a charming rose colour. The nice chap at the gate took our money.....£1.50 each, but did let half of us in without tickets. He then squeezed into Marco the Polo to start the tour. For a hole big enough to take 30m tons of ore from, this one was remarkably well hidden just a mile or so from where we're ...
Lions and Rhino and Braais... Oh My!
... run into the gauntlet and let off their own whilst dodging passing rockets (most not making it off the ground before exploding). But no one seems that bothered that they are in a war zone with rockets shooting at their faces, and in fact seem to enjoy the whole spectacle. To save our faces we walked 50m down the hill and sat on some big boulders by the sea but after an hour and a half and multiple fireworks exploding a few metres above our heads we decided ...
Other places to stay in Ermelo
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Ermelo Inn
CNR. Kerk & Fourie Streets, Mpumalanga, Ermelo | 3 star hotelfrom $99
