DONE

Finally, Nonna's witch room is done!!!

We finished the work this morning at 04:00.........

Plenty fish.....

ready to catch some fish :-)

@ mgi, thank you so much for your wedding gift, the tent rocks!

We tested it in the garden of Nonna's house and its super spacious for a 2 man tent

We wanted to go camping this week end, but heavy rainfalls crossed our plans.....
So when the weather finally cleared up on Sunday,
we decided to go to the Rietvlei Dam to catch some fish

Whilst the guys were working very hard, I relaxed with reading and, as usual, taking pictures

Catch of the day!
But the fish was too small and therefore we let him go and proceeded with plan 2 for lunch :-)

We stayed at the dam the whole day until sunset.
Here my nicest shots from the evening

Redoing the witch room

Monday, 19th November

Damien has decided to take care of Nonna's witch room.
This is her lounge/living room, its very cosy in there, if it wasn't for that old carpet, it keeps the dust and in all honesty, it really needs to go out...

1, 2, 3 and 

the carpet is 

out, YEAH!

Tuesday, 20th November

Cleaning up and sweating in 34 degrees......

After we gave the floor a good clean, we went to the Chamberlain store to get all the "ingredients" we needed. Tile Adhesive, Grout, Sponges etc. and the fun can start.....

Wednesday, 21st November

Its about 34 to 36 degrees again, just the right temperature to work in the witch room behind glass windows.....  So I decided, rather to get involved in documenting the renovation. I mean taking photos is also very tiring. Really!

Damien filling up gaps in the floor

and putting in the tiles

the challenge was the uneven floor..... if the floor was even, it would have been much faster....

Thursday, 22nd November

Today we take a break :-)

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Friday, 23rd November

Finished! All tiles are in!

Its quite a good feeling to do something yourself, we never thought that we would be doing this kind of work, but it was fun

Now all we need to do is to put in the grout and then, voilà Nonna will have a witch room easy to clean and less dusty :-)

Who doesn't love it?

South Africans might be a multi cultural population, with its eleven official languages (namely English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Sepedi, Xhosa, Venda, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Zulu, Swazi and Tsonga) and its mixed races and cultural diversity. This led the country to get the suiting title "The Rainbow Nation"

Nevertheless, there is one thing that all South Africans have in common, and that is their deep passion to BRAAI

Damien's uncle Marco was our "grillmaster" last week end

South Africans love to come together for a braai, with their family, friends, neighbors or work colleagues, to indulge in the pleasure of having a braai together

You remember our earlier post "The Move"? This is the new place from Damien's mom. 

Its perfect for braais and get together!

I had many barbecues in Switzerland, but South Africans take it to another level. There is always tons of meat in all possible variations. One of my favorites are boerewors (really tasty sausage) and sosaties (meat cooked on skewers) also millie (mais) will never be missing at a braai.

To prepare the fire is the gents work and everyone has their own special technique. I guess what all of those techniques have in common is that beer and wine shall be consumed in a steady manner until and after the fire is ready. ;-)

The ladys will prepare a vast variety of salads

(couscous, greek, green and mixed salads) just to name a few

I think the magic that makes South African braais so much different and I would safely say better than barbecues, is the passion that is put in to the preparation. To prepare for a braai is a social event in itself and needless to say its a wonderful thing to spend an entire day with people you care, to relax, chat and eat good food together. The South Africans simply take time for this and have it imbedded in their culture.

Thanks to Karien

Today its exactly one month, since we celebrated our wedding in South Africa, Stellenbosch, with our Family and Friends. We received these beautiful pictures from Karien and there are so many memories coming back....

The location was stunning, beautiful weather

we had lot's of fun @ our wedding.......

but the most important was, that YOU guys were there :-) 

THANK YOU for making our day absolutely unforgettable and unique! 

"Grün ist die Hoffnung"

Our dance to Velvet Underground.........

Jacqui & Becci :-)

Please share your pictures with us!

As soon as we receive the link to our wedding gallery, from our Photographer, we will forward it to you

Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man

Rodriguez produced his first album "Cold Fact" in 1970 - its brilliant. For some reason he was never successful in America, but he got huge following in South Africa. Searching for Sugar Man is a documentary by South Africans, who wanted to find out what happened to their idol. You HAVE to watch this documentaty!

Rebekka

(pics from the soundtrack cover)

If ever the music industry made a colossal mistake, if ever the human race was not able to recognise musical genius when handed to them on a plate then the story of Jesus Rodriguez is at the peak of that list. As Rebekka has pointed out the true die hard fans and cult following in South Africa has inspired Director Malik Bendjelloul to make this fantastic documentary taking you on a journey of laughter and tears as we the audience discover (and for many South Africans rediscover) one of the world most talented song writers of modern music. His lyrics pierce with truth and testament, and resonate as any grand poem would. He is in my and many other's book up there if not above Jimmy, Janis, Waits, Lennon, and Cale. Rodriguez is timeless and I urge you to listen to his albums and go and see this documentary.

DHW

Ravioli fatti in casa

Myself and Damien love to eat and Damien had this great idea to collect recipe's during our travel.
We will not only collect recipe's for ourselves, we will try to film how the dishes have to be prepared and get to know the person who prepares the dish.

What better place then to start with his Nonna. Her food is divine and I really have to think about exercising (we will be at there place in South Africa until End of December, beginning January) if I don't want to gain too much.... :-)
Today she showed us how to make ravioli by hand. We started right after lunch to set up the cameras and all in all it took us 5 hours to prepare and cook the ravioli!