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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Overland Roads – Guest Post
Marian’s 1976 Africa trip. Of wild Africa in the 70’s, Kiwi MARIAN GELLERT, met in London in 1969, mentioned in my earlier blogs and with whom I recently reconnected, writes: I came across this letter written to my mother when … Continue reading
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Tagged Marian Gellert, Overland London to Nairobi, Rwanda, Zaire
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Zambezi Delta
1973 still had some wild Africa in it for me before the year shut its door. After the birth of my daughter, I flew back to Beira and headed for the Zambezi to join the crew surveying its delta. We … Continue reading
Birth
In October of 1973, I flew south for a week to attend the birth of my first child. I knew it would be a boy. Greet, with her big tummy, was staying with my parents on the farm near Warmbaths, … Continue reading
PORTO AMELIA
As the Inhaminga area survey drew to a close towards the end of 1973, I was asked to head up to northern Mozambique to do a solo survey for an oil-seed company looking for suitable land to grow oil-seed crops … Continue reading