18/02/2010 by Nikita
On THIS LINK you can watch some short clips about Cape Town but also take a virtual tour! This link is worth visiting.
Do yourself a favour and take a look at Etienne’s Flickr photos – even if you are from the US or the UK you will find pics you will appreciate. On this image you can see the cable car on Table Mountain being inspected – 1977. He has pictures that cover a variety of topics and you will surely find something to your taste. This next pic is Adderley Street – Cape Town – 1960.
I took the road less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. - Goethe
Churchill described his impressions of the Boer army when he first saw it, as a recently taken captive: 'What men they were, these Boers! I thought of them as I had seen them in the morning riding forward through the rain--thousands of independent riflemen, thinking for themselves, possessed of beautiful weapons, led with skill, living as they rode without commissariat or transport or ammunition column, moving like the wind, and supported by iron constitutions'.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.-Abraham Lincoln
Spoken by great men:"Give me 20 divisions of American soldiers and I will breach Europe. Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen and I will advance to the borders of Berlin. Give me two divisions of those marvellous fighting Boers and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth." - Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allied Forces during WW2.
"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honour, glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight, the Russians have no choice. The Germans for their Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of Bitches fight for the hell of it." American General, George 'Guts and Glory' Patton.
A nation that forgets its past has no future - Winston Churchill
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.-Confucius
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -Herman Melville
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
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
Seek in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future.
Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek --Langenhoven
Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
By learning we teach and by teaching we learn
Men Top Ten chess players
Women Top Ten chess players
I adore such things and can look at them endlessly.
Hi James
Yes, I feel the same like you. These pictures are precious. I hope you’ve seen the England-pics and the WWII-pics
Wow! I was trying to view the other pics but I’m blogging from the UAE and the a-holes blocked flickr
Hi SA Expats! I assume you could look at it at home? Make sure you don’t miss those pics!
Sulke foto’s laat my altyd so oud voel. 😦
hi Boer! Jong, ek is geneig om saam te stem! Onthou net, jy is so oud soos jy voel, dus, as jy 18 voel, dan is jy 18! 🙂
Maar die ding is, ek VOEL nie 18 nie! 😆
Ag toe! Jy wat nog tjokkertjie lyk! 🙂
Dankie, Nikita! 😳
Ek het dit as kompliment bedoel! 🙂
nikita,
its seldom that people like you ever look back to the photographs of the yesteryears. quite nostalgic.
hi Hames
You made me following again that link on Flickr and spending another hour or so looking at newly uploaded photos! Yes, I love such things and in general I think I have a sentiment for many things, especially when it comes to anything “historical”. These pics on the link are quite nostalgic – and special. It’s when looking at these pics, that I regret the times I had opportunities to collect “memories” [in the form of pics] and didn’t think about it really.
Hi Nikita,
Het toevallig op jou ‘site’ afgekom.Bly julle ouens geniet my fotoreeks op flickr.
I try to post images weekly……so there is always some new stuff.
Vriendelike groete,
Etienne.
P.S. Nou darem nie meer lank voor julle weer ‘n bietjie warmer sal kry nie! 🙂
Hi Etienne! Dankie vir jou besoekie en boodskap, ek sal beslis teen volgende week bietjie inloer. Jou foto’s is pragtig en goud werd! Ja, die warmte is st-a-dig oppad. 🙂