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A sprawling Free State farm returned to the steam age last week.
Garratts slumber in the smoky Sandstone engine shed
Twenty-two restored steam locomotives were fired-up and spent the week hauling trains on the 26km-long narrow gauge railway that picks its way through the maize fields and under the sandstone buttresses on Sandstone Estates near Ficksburg. Read More…
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…
THIS is the sound of two 1200 horspower Pratt & Whitney radial engines at full take-off power. Make that six Pratt & Whitney radials as a World War II-era Catalina flying-boat and a Douglas C-47 “Dakota”, and two Harvard chase planes took off from Rand Airport on a photo shoot on Saturday. You will hear the sound of one of the Harvards climbing out after take-off, followed by the wide-open-throttle sound of the Catalina and then the Dakota
The Catalina, fresh from a six-year restoration job, is about to depart for its new home on San Diego so this was a last chance for local photographers get pictures of this magnificent machine in the air. Read More…
On the shunt in Hanoi, Vietnam. Click on the photo
January 2, 1995. It was my last day in Hanoi. We had returned to the city from a five-day scooter ride in the country. We had been lost, cold, battered by the “Chinese wind”, rained on and starved of gas and food, and Vietnam had, occasionally, felt mean and less enchanting, as it would from under a soaked poncho and freezing mud in our boots. We had tickets for tonight’s train, the Reunification Express to Saigon. But first I had to wash the mud off my scooter and inhale whatever last memories I could of Hanoi. Read More…
The Mona Lisa looks down on a slow day at The Louvre. Click on the photo
June 3, 2012 EIGHT million people a year shuffle down the long galleries of The Louvre. On any summer Sunday, it feels like all of them are there on the same day. That’s the cost of modern tourism and who can argue with that when it pays The Louvre’s rent? Read More…
The falls as a very lucky airline passenger might see them
Local no-frills carrier 1time Airlines plans to start flights to Victoria Falls as well as Harare. Apparently a test flight with civil aviation authorities aboard from both countries has been completed with smiles all round. So that’s all good. Read More…
When we fly we want to know that the people up front have got it together. Of course, they are human and therefore prone to the same idiocy as the rest of us, at least some of the time. Luckily, having a brawl in-flight – during which none of the crew were actually flying the plane – and ranting over the intercom about the lack of sex on offer from your cabin crew, are not everyday events on most airlines.
For a list of the seven worst things a pilot can do, check out this story.
Brewing up in Ghoom. Click on the photo
10 February 1995. The train took all day to climb from the warm Indian plain, panting its way foot by foot into the hills. Read More…
On the beach, Langebaan Lagoon. Click to enlarge
17 July 2011. It was one of those Cape winter days which might not be winter at all, a bright, warm morning, blue sky and still water. Read More…
Sunday Times motoring writer and racing driver Thomas Falkiner took the newspaper’s adventure duo for a few fast laps in his Mustang at Zwartkops raceway. Check the slideshow.
The Shelby Mustang on the open road PHOTO: Marianne Schwankhart
