During the summer months, the Taal Monument – or Afrikaans Language Monument – on the rugged granite hills overlooking the pretty town of Paarl, about an hour north of Cape Town, hosts full-moon picnics and stargazing picnics on the grounds of the monument. This year, their first full moon picnic of the summer season was scheduled…
A couple of weeks ago, on Saturday the 3rd of October 2009, two friends, Volker and Liezl, invited us for a full-moon picnic at the Taal Monument (Afrikaans Language Monument) on the outskirts of Paarl. We hadn’t visited the place for a few years, and this was the first time we’d be able to have…
This morning, it being a Saturday and our usual ‘going to the shops’ day, we set off early for the shopping mecca of Century City and from thence to the rather pretty Willowbridge shopping centre (behind that utterly confusing behemoth of Tygervalley Shopping Centre, where I can never remember near which entrance and which level I left…
Grains of Sand 