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Three Dutch sailing ships are presently heading across the southern Atlantic to Cape Town.
Oosterschelde at sea. Click on the photo
The three vessels – the bark Europa, the Oosterschelde and the Tecla have embarked on a voyage to trace the route of the great Dutch explorers Abel Tasman and Cornelis de Houtman during which they will round the three notorious capes named by Dutch sailors – Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn. Read More…
The Top Star in better days. PHOTO: Rodney Jones
Remember the Top Star Drive-in, one of Jo’burg’s more heartwarming landmarks? Read More…
BY BRENDAN BOYLE
‘Poggio?’, we asked with an interrogative lilt and hands pointing along the path we were following.
‘Poggio!’, said the farmer with emphasis and a hand in the same direction as he looked down on us from his horse.
Into the Tuscan Mountains
We had taken an exit on one of the S66′s many roundabouts and ended up on a twisting track wide enough only for one car at a time. It snaked unfenced through fields of wild flowers, corn, lavender and lucerne as though someone had dropped a string of thin tar and left it lying as it fell. Read More…
Two pictures of the machine that revolutionised the airline business. The first, a United Airlines publicity shot taken in 1935 when the DC-3 was entering service in America, shows Douglas Sleeper Transport “City of Portland” preparing for take-off. Read More…
They don’t make them like they used to. Imagine a product that was desgined to not break, fail, fritz, melt-down or become obsolete two minutes after it first appeared on the market. Read More…
A scene straight out of the late 1930s as a Douglas DC-3 Dakota named “Tangaloa” cruises high over the islands of Tonga in the South Pacific. Read More…
Roving correspondent John Buxton sent this lovely picture of Kalk Bay harbour some time in the 1950s with a whole bunch of classic cars pulled up on the quay waiting for the fishing boats to come in with their hauls of snoek and hake. Read More…
The magnificent, single-span steel bridge that crosses the Zambezi at Victoria Falls is 105 years old today.
The bridge was built at this spot on the instructions of the Empire’s Man in Africa, Cecil John Rhodes, whose dream of forging a railway from Cape Town to Cairo was well advanced by the turn of the 20th Century. Read More…
One for the aeroplane geeks. Here’s a photo, currently doing the rounds of the Web, of what the South African Air Force’s first line of defence looked like in the very early 1960s. In the line-up at AFB Waterkloof are silver-painted Mirage IIIs (later rebuilt into Cheetahs, and now all retired), Canberra bombers, Buccaneer low-level strike aircraft and a couple of Sabre fighters, veterans of the Korean War. Read More…
My correspondent, Dakota mechanic Brendan Odell, writes from Tonga where the throaty thunder of a pair of radial engines is something the inhabitants of these faraway islands have probably not heard for while: Read More…
