{"id":143,"date":"2006-12-14T19:47:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cockyhuisman.nl\/zuidafrika\/?p=143"},"modified":"2011-11-24T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T12:22:21","slug":"caledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Caledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/nederland.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25\" title=\"nederland.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/nederland.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"33\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Dag 23, donderdag 14 december.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Vanochtend weer vroeg opgestaan. Het was zelfs zo vroeg dat Cocky zonder erbij na te denken de slaapkamer uitliep naar de keuken. Dat moet je in Zuid-Afrika dus niet zomaar doen, voordat het alarm is afgezet! Of zoals Vasi later zei: Als je mij wilt wekken, hoef je niet de beveiliging te alarmeren, maar klop gewoon op de deur\u009d. Maar Vasi stond onder de douche en de bewapende beveiligingsbeambte stond binnen vijf minuten voor de deur. Toen waren we goed wakker. We hadden met de schoonzus van Vasi, Amanda,\u00a0 afgesproken om vandaag te gaan wandelen op de Swartberg bij Caledon, waar we uiteindelijk rond 8 uur aankwamen. We hebben drie uur gewandeld en zagen niet alleen vele verschillende veldblomme, maar ook een gevlekte kousbandjie (slang) en prachtige vergezichten over de gemaaide akkerlanden. Daarna kort-kort bij Ouma van Deventer, de moeder van Vasi, binnen gewipt om hallo te zeggen alvorens naar de boerderij van Amanda en Wessel te gaan waar we voor een heerlijke lunch waren uitgenodigd.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Met een goed gevulde maag gingen we daarna op weg naar het zuidelijkste puntje van Afrika, kaap l&#8217;Agulhas. Daar zijn we dan dus ook geweest. Rond zes uur weer terug bij die huis en die buis.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/uk.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26\" title=\"uk.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/uk.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Day 23, <span lang=\"EN-US\">Thursday<\/span> 14 December.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">This morning we had to get up early again. It was even so early that Cocky activated the alarm when she went into the kitchen before it was switched off. The armed response was on the spot within five minutes. Vasi asked Cocky to just simply knock on his door to wake him next time! We had an appointment with Amanda, Vasi&#8217;s sister-in-law, to go for a hiking tour on the Swartberg mountain near Caledon. We finally got going around eight o&#8217;clock for a three hour hike. We were treated with beautiful flowers, a snake and scenic views along the way. We said hello to Vasis mother on the way to the farm of Amanda and Wessel where we were spoiled with a delicious lunch. For the afternoon we planned to go to Africa&#8221; s most southern point, Cape l&#8217;Agulhas. The night we spend relaxing as couch potatoes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Cocky &amp; Jos<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dag 23, donderdag 14 december. Vanochtend weer vroeg opgestaan. Het was zelfs zo vroeg dat Cocky zonder erbij na te denken de slaapkamer uitliep naar de keuken. Dat moet je in Zuid-Afrika dus niet zomaar doen, voordat het alarm is afgezet! Of zoals Vasi later zei: Als je mij wilt wekken, hoef je niet de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocky.rikers.eu\/ZA2006\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}