Westelike provinsie voel soos buiteland

Reis is altyd opwindend..  

Pas terug van SB woordfees en tydjie by die Prins van die Paarl.

70 dae oud

Hulle is albei lammetjies. Onderste een op doek by uitstalling tydens die Woordfees

Een van die oudste eikebome op Stellenbosch

Onder:   Een van die Jongste "eikebome" in die Paarl

Suid-Afrikaners in die Kaukasiese gebergtes

Vir die afgelope sewe jaar het  heelwat Suid-Afrikaners hulle in Georgie gevestig. Sommige as sakemanne, maar die meeste as boere.  Dit is geen maklike taak nie... eerstens die taalprobleem en dan die rompslomp en totale ander leefwyse.
    So maak ons kennis met die Kritzinger-egpaar, Koos en Erika. Koos is vriend Hendrik se kleinneef en oorspronklik uit die Langkloof.  Hy het 'n visplaas gekoop en kort na die transaksie al probleme opgetel met verskaffers van vislarwes wat hom in langdurige hofgedinge laat beland het.
     Erika gee taallesse. Sy is al  heel gekonfyt in die krulletjiesalfabet van  die plaaslike mense en het genoeg selfvertroue om haar spreek te spreek in 'n restourant, in 'n bus en op 'n mark.
     Net voor ons vertrek het ons saam met hulle in die nuut-ontwikkelde Aghmaskenebeli in Tbilisi gaan stap.

                                                           Kia saam met Erika en Koos

 

                                                                    Straatmusikant op Sondag!

                                                              Fasade pas gerestoureer!

                                                      Die land vry na EU-lidmaatskap

                                                       Die buurt is kreatief, bedrywig en gesellig!

                                             Van alles en nog wat in die straat

                    Neef Koos neem 'n ruskans op een van die moderne banke in die stapstraat

'n Kykie in die Georgiane se verlede

Teen die einde van ons verblyf in Tblisi gaan ek en Kia met 'n taxi na die buitewyke van die stad om die Etnografiese museum te besoek.   Werklik 'n tog die verlede in wat habitat,k argitektuur en daaglikse roetine betref....
    Kyk saam...

                    Die kinderwiegie was vir my 'n ervaring.   Vir 'n seuntjie is daar 'n gaatjie in die matras gemaak met 'n piepiepypie wat in die dun-nek houer geplaas is.   Wonder hoe hulle die kindertjies so stil kon laat le het..?

Bron:  inyourpocket.com....
                    A huge outdoor museum sprawling over 50 hectares on the hill above Vake Park. It consists of over 70 buildings and more than 8000 implements and artefacts from traditional Georgian life. The museum is divided into ten zones, each depicting a different aspect of Georgian ethnology. The buildings have been brought from all over Georgia and painstakingly re-errected. There is a example of a guard tower form the Northern Svanetia and a Kachetian winery as well as houses and other buildings from Abkhazia, Ajara and other regions. Each building has its own relevant display of costumes, ceramics, tools and items from daily life. At the Kartli house, arrive before 16:00 and when you step inside, look up.... The museum also has great views over the city.

Geen tekort aan kerke in Armenie

Die religie en kerkargitektuur is 'n vervlegte studie en vir 'n besoeker sonder twyfel 'n openbaring...

     Ons het  een oggend twee beroemde kerke besoek: die Heilige Etichmiadzin katedraal buite Yerevan en tuiste van die Opperpatriarg van die Armeense geloof, en St Gayene...

Jy stap deur die eeue op hierdie terrein en dan duik 'n moderne struktuur voor jou op in die vorm van 'n podium en altaar vir 'n opelugkerk.  Dit is spesiaal opgerig vir die Katolieke Pous se besoek in Julie 2016

Gedenkmal fur ermordeten Juden

Berlyn :  12 Oktober 2016 

     Na jare se besoeke aan strafkampe, sentra van uitwissing en musems wat die Joosdse geskiedenis van onderdrukking, lyding en moord uit beeld,  wil ek vandag 'n streep trek by die uitsonderlike argitektoniese skepping en sy kosbare inhoud...

Bron;  Wikipedia

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 m² (4.7-acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.7 m (7.9 in to 15 ft 5.0 in).^[2] They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew.^[4][5] An attached underground "Place of Information" (German: Ort der Information) holds the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.

Building began on April 1, 2003, and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million

Yerevan: ontdekking te voet

Yerevan was een van my grootste verrassings.  Ek het beplan om daarheen te reis sodat ek berg Ararat kon sien, maar wat gewag het was net buitengewoon mooi / opwindend / uitstekend.

Lees en sien meer by:
http://www.adventurous-travels.com/2013/07/yerevan-armenia-pink-city.html

Hier volg net 'n paar fotos geneem tydens 'n stap deur die weldeurdagte uitleg van die binnestad:

                                                Die laggende kiwi naby die Cascades

                                               Die Cascades is 'n gesig om nooit te vergeet nie.

                                         Die Cafesjian kunssentrum waar die Cascades gelee is.

                                          'n Soetigheid aan die einde van die aandwandeling

                                     Die roosverkoper - op straat - werk tot laataand


History of Yerevan began in the eighth century BC when the fortress of Erebuni was founded in 782 BC by king Argishti I. Since then, the Armenian capital has been one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Yerevan, due to its location was always the center of battles, invasions and clashes by its neighboring empires - Arab, Persian, Ottoman and Russian. The city was leveled to the ground several times not only by invaders but also by natural disasters like earthquakes. Not much of ancient Yerevan has been preserved to this day. The ruins of the Erebuni fortress that give testimony of the greatness of Armenian culture and history are one of the few examples. After the first world war, Yerevan was a small town with only around thirty thousand inhabitants. The survivors of Armenian Genocide started to come back to their fatherland and settle there. In the twentieth century, Armenia became a part of the Soviet Union and Yerevan expanded rapidly during those times. The population grew to around one million within a century. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia didn't handle the transition from communism to free market economy very well and many factories, state farms and other forms of industry stopped operating causing many problems in the country's economy. Nowadays, Yerevan is being reconstructed and it reminds a big construction site. There are many new investments in the area although the level of poverty and the shadows of past times of the Communism Era are still clearly noticeable. However, don't let this discourage you from visiting Yerevan in Armenia as it has a lot to offer culturally and historically (more than you would expect from such a small country), not to mention beautiful scenery and nature.