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South African wedding day 6: Frick’s Farm
By nealejames | April 4, 2007
Roads. More roads. More long long, very long, extremely long, straight, never veering, long roads. South Africa is vast, so yes, it does make sense to be quite matter of fact and A to B, but the odd turn and twist does make for a more interesting journey. I’ll never criticise Basingstoke’s collection of roundabouts again. Our witty and knowledgeable Africaan guide Coen more than made up for the hours of direct routes taken along SA’s network of straight roads however and upon leaving Shorty’s breeding farm, I machine gunned him with a series of questions reminiscent of my years as a broadcaster. Coen’s background includes military service and so obviously I was anxious to know how he felt about SA’s years in the international wilderness of apartheid. That covered we talked about crime, social structure and the merits of owning ABBA back catalogue. There is excitement about the next FIFA World Cup in 2010, although a nagging degree of doubt whether it’s a realistic proposition the country can pull it off. We passed one site in particular that, with three years to run, has not even been cleared of debris to allow building to begin on one of the new stadia required to host football’s greatest world event. There are more than one or two politicians who accept the suggestion, it may yet fall by default to the second host in line; the UK. Shall I book my place at Wembley now? Oh by the way, we’ve arrived at Frick’s Farm. We’re close to Botswana. I think. Time for a team photo.
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