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skills!! I joined special agents Dewald and Irma on this extremely dangerous and
daring mission across Africa to rescue a 100 year old tree and re-plant it in their
garden in Great Brak River. We were to drive
west cutting through the mountains surrounding the wine route and making camp
somewhere for one night as the journey was nearly a 800 miles round trip!! In
temperatures rising above 35 degrees we drove relentlessly on and on past fields
and fields of delicious looking grapes ready to be turned into some of the best
wine's in the world. Then just as it looked like we had made it safely through
the wine route I managed to wiggle my foot through to the engine compartment and
prize open the cylinder head with my big toe forcing us to stop due to over
heating!!! I then knew my real mission of wine tasting was within reach!! Unfortunately
I had only meant to slow our progress a little, giving me enough time to taste a
few bottles of these local wines. What I had not taken into account was how
tough my feet had become living in Africa for a few months and had lifted the
cylinder head too far and blown the gaskets causing the Jeep more than 25,000
Rands worth of repair work and a week in the garage at Worchester. Sorry Dewald!!
:-( That night after hiring a car we drove to a local spa and stayed in a
nice "Rondal" ( a round house like the local would have lived in ) As we were unable to hire a car with a tow hitch on to tow the hired trailer up to fetch the tree, we had to call the mission off. We had to leave the Jeep and the trailer in Worchester and drive back to Great Brak River. Special agent Dewald on the other hand would not give up on the mission and in the end had to be held down and tied up by more than ten other agents to stop him going back by whatever means he could to complete his mission!! So now when the Jeep is fixed, the tree will be rescued and planted here to live out its rather long and happy life. |
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Eeyore Eeyoreways tips them
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Fields and fields of grapes ready to be harvested
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