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Why to visit the Royal Hotel, Bethulie, Free State
By Roxanne ReidIt’s like falling down Alice’s rabbit hole to a wacky world where there’s no front door, walls are made of books, friendly ghosts walk the passages, and you’ll meet a character just as intriguing as the March Hare. Find out why to visit the Royal Hotel, Bethulie, Free State. Bethulie lies in sheep-and-cattle country in South Africa’s dry heartland. Call it the Free State or even th Read more of this blog post »
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“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently.”
― A Walk in the Park: Travels in and around South Africa's national parks
― A Walk in the Park: Travels in and around South Africa's national parks
“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently.”
― A Walk in the Park: Travels in and around South Africa's national parks
― A Walk in the Park: Travels in and around South Africa's national parks
“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”
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“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
― The Braindead Megaphone
